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Conceiving cultures : reproducing people & places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea / Shelley Mallett.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .M353 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallett, Shelley, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massim (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Massim (Papua New Guinean people).
- Birth customs--Papua New Guinea--Nuakata Island.
- Birth customs.
- Philosophy, Massim--Papua New Guinea--Nuakata Island.
- Philosophy, Massim.
- Nuakata Island (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Nuakata Island (Papua New Guinea).
- Papua New Guinea--Nuakata Island.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Makes explicit anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by way of the other.
- Contents:
- Introduction: imagining the field
- Tracing Nuakata
- Colonial impregnations
- Bearing the inconceivable
- Belongings
- Planting the past, tending the future
- Living death
- Conclusion: remembering Nuakata.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472098284
- 0472068288
- OCLC:
- 50478408
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