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C. A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology. Gifts and commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era. Dr Christopher Gregory is an Adjunct Fellow in Anthropology ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Economic anthropology. --- Papua New Guinea --- Papua New Guinea. --- Economic conditions.

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Economic development --- Free enterprise --- Papua New Guinea --- Economic policy.

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History of Oceania with Australia --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sulka --- Papua New Guinea

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This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are pre

Anthropological linguistics--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Context (Linguistics)--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Discourse analysis, Narrative--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Language and culture--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Learning, Psychology of--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Psycholinguistics--Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Context (Linguistics) --- Language and culture --- Learning, Psychology of --- Psycholinguistics --- Anthropological linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Learning --- Psychology of learning --- Culture and language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Situation (Linguistics) --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Psychological aspects --- Context --- Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) --- Educational psychology --- Comprehension --- Learning ability --- Culture --- Linguistics --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Antropological linguistics --- Austronesian languages --- Anthropology

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Sorcery and witchcraft practices and beliefs are pervasive across Melanesia. They are in part created by, and give rise to, a wide variety of poor social and developmental outcomes. These include uneven economic development, low public health, lack of social cohesion, crime, fear and insecurity. A further very visible problem is the attacks on men and women who are accused of being practitioners of witchcraft or sorcery, which can lead to serious bodily harm, banishment and sometimes death. Today, many communities, individuals, church organisations and policymakers in Melanesia and internationally are exploring ways to overcome the negative social outcomes associated with witchcraft and sorcery practices and beliefs. This book brings together a collection of chapters written by a diverse range of authors, both Melanesian and non-Melanesian, providing crucial insights both into how these practices and beliefs are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and also the types of interventions that are being trialled or debated to address the problems associated with them.

Melanesia -- Social life and customs. --- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. --- Witchcraft -- Melanesia. --- Witchcraft -- Papua New Guinea. --- Witchcraft --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Melanesia --- Papua New Guinea --- Social life and customs. --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Oceania --- development --- witchcraft --- melanesia --- interventions --- sorcery --- Maleficium (sorcery)