The Melanesian world / edited by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirsch, Eric, 1956- editor.

Rollason, Will, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge worlds

The Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Civilization.

History.

Melanesia--History.

Melanesia.

Melanesia--Civilization.

Melanesia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 16 unnumbered pages, 577 pages) : illustrations, maps.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Eric Hirsch is a Reader in Anthropology at Brunel University London, UK. He has a long-standing interest in the ethnography and history of Papua New Guinea. Will Rollason is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London, UK. His research to date has focused on Papua New Guinea and Rwanda.

Contents:

1. Introduction : the challenge of Melanesia / Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason

2. The archaeology of Melanesia / Glenn Summerhayes

3. Melanesia : a region and a history / Max Quanchi

4. Missionaries in the Melanesian world / John Barker

5. Geo-political overview of Melanesia / Stewart Firth

6. Melanesia as a zone of language diversity / Alan Rumsey

7. Regional overview : from diversity to multiple singularities / Jaap Timmer

8. Subsistence food production in Melanesia / R.M. Bourke

9. Class, labour and consumption in urban Melanesia / Lorena Gibson

10. Money schemes in contemporary Melanesia / John Cox

11. Cash crops and markets / Timothy L.M. Sharp and Mark Busse

12. Searching for Melanesian urbanity / Michael Goddard

13. Sovereignty, civil conflict and ethnicity / Matthew G. Allen

14. Local government and politics : forms and aspects of authority / Steffen Dalsgaard

15. Security governance in Melanesia : police, prisons and crime / Sinclair Dinnen

16. Gender relations and human rights in Melanesia / Martha Macintyre

17. Health, institutions and governance in Melanesia / Alice Street

18. Owning the law in Melanesia / Melissa Demian and Benedicta Rousseau

19. "Witchcraft" and "sorcery" in Melanesia / Knut Rio

20. Charismatic churches, revivalism and new religious movements / Annelin Eriksen and Michelle MacCarthy

21. Cargo cult post mortem / Lamont Lindstrom

22. Big men, ceremonial exchange and life-cycle events / Keir Martin

23. Interpreting initiation in Melanesia : past and present / Pascale Bonnemère

24. Museums and cultural centres in Melanesia : a series of experiments / Lissant Bolton

25. Creation and destruction in Melanesian material culture / Anna-Karina Hermkens

26. Contemporary art in Melanesia : from grassroots to national identity? / Eva Ch. Raabe

27. Melanesian worlds of music and dance / Michael Webb

28. The Melanesian world of paradise tourism : reflections on time, travel and cultural performance / John P. Taylor

29. Places and paths in Melanesian landscapes / Borut Telban

30. Extractive industries in Melanesia / Glenn Banks

31. Climate change in the islands and the highlands : Melanesian manifestations, experiences and actions / Edvard Hviding and Camilla Borrevik

32. Western conservation in Melanesia : biodiversity conservation for whom, by whom, and according to whom? / Bridget M. Henning

33. New media, new Melanesia? / Geoffrey Hobbis

34. Afterword / Marilyn Strathern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Melanesian world.

ISBN:

9781315529691

1315529696

9781315529677

131552967X

9781315529684

1315529688

9781315529660

1315529661

Publisher Number:

99986466895

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.