From primitive to postcolonial in Melanesia and anthropology
By: Bruce M. Knauft.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Ethnology -- Melanesia.; Ethnology -- Melanesia -- History.; Melanesia -- Social life and customs.; Melanesia -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Melanesia as "culture area"; title: Bodily images in Melanesia : cultural substances and natural metaphors; title: Warfare and history in Melanesia; title: Gender and modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia; title: Post-Melanesian studies? a contemporary look at the anthropology of Melanesia.