Conceiving cultures : reproducing people & places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea / Shelley Mallett.
By: Mallett, Shelley
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, c2003Description: xi, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Massim (Papua New Guinea people) -- Social life and customs | Birth customs -- Papua New Guinea -- Nuakata Island | Philosophy, Massim -- Papua New Guinea -- Nuakata Island | Nuakata Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306.089992 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Introduction : imagining the field -- Tracing Nuakata -- Colonial impregnations -- Bearing the inconceivable -- Belongings -- Planting the past, tending the future -- Living death -- Conclusion : remembering Nuakata.
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PNG Reference
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Matheson Library | Matheson Library | PNG Reference | PNG Collection | PR 306.089992 M253 (Browse shelf) | Available | 157586 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.
Introduction : imagining the field -- Tracing Nuakata -- Colonial impregnations -- Bearing the inconceivable -- Belongings -- Planting the past, tending the future -- Living death -- Conclusion : remembering Nuakata.
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