The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands…

Explores how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. This…

This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics…

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all…

Kinship has made a come-back in anthropology. Taking an explicitly processual approach, the authors examine definitions of terms such as kinship itself, approach the topic in a way that is…

Examines the social impact of terror – how it provokes different responses in perpetrators, victims and observers.