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The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisalo ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of... more...
Die Stimme der Entmündigten
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 36.65Hauptbeschreibung Der Kolonialismus brachte für die indigene Bevölkerung immer auch eine starke Beschränkung der Teilnahme am öffentlichen Diskurs, etwa in den Medien. Am Beispiel des indigenen Journalismus in Algerien zeigt Philipp Zessin, dass das verordnete Schweigen nicht immer akzeptiert wurde. Journalisten stritten fortwährend für ihr Recht,... more...
The Huli Response to Illness
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 42.00This study of the rapid transformation of traditional medical care among the Huli of New Guinea by Western treatments strikingly combines the methods of social anthropology and epidemiology. more...
Quadripartite Structures
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 37.00This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. more...
What Gifts Engender
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 37.00Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. more...
Djief Hunters
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 119.95Following the hunting of the Djief forest wallaby, this reference offers a unique perspective on sustainable hunting in prehistory and provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer existence from the late Pleistocene. more...
Child of the Jungle
Grand Central Publishing 2007; US$ 9.99A #1 bestseller in Europe, CHILD OF THE JUNGLE tells the remarkable story of a childhood and adolescence spent caught between two modes of existence-jungle life and Western "civilization." Sabine Kuegler was five years old when her family-her German linguist-missionary parents and her siblings-moved to the territory of the recently discovered hunter-and-gatherer... more...
Stealing People's Names
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 46.00In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person. more...
Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableEast of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown paradise islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas. They were perhaps the last inhabited place on earth to be explored by Europeans, and even today many remain largely unspoilt, despite the former presence of German, British and even Australian colonial... more...
Social Complexity in the Making
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Social Complexity in the Making is a highly accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in the interior Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea. This village, unlike others in the region, expanded at an uncharacteristically fast rate more than a century ago and has maintained its large size... more...









