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Tree leaf talk : a Heideggerian anthropology.
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ISBN: 1859735010 1859737218 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Berg

The heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality
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ISBN: 0520061322 0585135029 Year: 1988 Volume: 5 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,


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The empty place : poetry, space, and being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 0585163960 9780585163963 0253363829 9780253363824 Year: 1991 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,


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Too many meanings : a critique of the anthropology of aesthetics
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Adelaide : ETU,

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The treachery of co-wives : the mythical origin of mediating food items in Foi

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Sexology --- sexuality --- food --- New Guinea


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Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives
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ISBN: 1921313269 1921313277 9781921313271 9781921313264 Year: 2007 Publisher: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press,

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The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning groups in these countries. Because the legislation is an integral part of the way in which indigenous people are defined and managed in relation to the State, it serves to elicit particular responses in landowner organisation and self-identification on the part of indigenous people. These pieces of legislation actively contour the progressive evolution of landowner social, territorial and political organisation at all levels in these nation states. The contributors to this volume provide in-depth anthropological case studies of social structural and cultural transformations engendered by the confrontation between states, developers and indigenous communities over rights to customarily owned land.


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Songs of the empty place : the memorial poetry of the Foi of the Southern highlands province of Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 1925022226 1925022234 9781925022230 9781925022223 Year: 2015 Publisher: ANU Press

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For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women's sago songs (obedobora), men's ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women's sorohabora are included. Men turn the prosaic content of womenís sago songs into their own sorohabora songs, which are performed the night following large-scale inter-community pig kills, called dawa. While women sing sago songs by themselves, men sing their ceremonial songs in groups of paired men. Women also have their own ceremonial versions of such songs. The songs are memorial in intent; they are designed to commemorate the lives of men who are no longer living. Most commonly they do so by naming the places the deceased inhabited during his lifetime. These song texts and translations are introduced by Weiner. Ethnomusicologist Don Niles then brings together information about each type of song and considers these Foi genres in relation to those of neighbouring groups, highlighting aspects of regional performance styles. Consideration is also given to the poetic devices used in Papua New Guinea songs. Eighteen recordings illustrating the Foi genres discussed in this book are available for download. It remains uncertain how such songs may be affected by the major oil extraction project that has been undertaken in the region for more than two decades. This book will interest students of anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, verbal art, aesthetics, and cultural heritage


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Emplaced Myth : Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 0824843940 Year: 2000 Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press,

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Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This volume is the first in-depth work to do just that: it situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and "place"--an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.Contributors: Lissant Boltan, Andrew Lattas, Anthony Redmond, Alan Rumsey, Deborah Bird Rose, Eric Kline Silverman, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Roy Wagner, Jurg Wassmann, James F. Weiner.


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Sales and revenue generation in sport business
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ISBN: 9781492594222 Year: 2022 Publisher: Champaign (Ill.) Human Kinetics

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