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In the Midst of Life
University of California Press 1992; US$ 12.95The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. In his new book, A. L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai,... more...
Wayward Women
University of California Press 2006; US$ 29.95Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli ?passenger women,? (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex,... more...
Melanesian Odysseys
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 90.00In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity... more...
Learning in Depth
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge by the time they graduate. Yet such broad knowledge can’t help but be somewhat superficial—and, as Kieran Egan argues, it omits a crucial aspect... more...
Laughing at Leviathan
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 27.50For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan , Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself—how it is fueled, formed, and... more...
Papua New Guinea
University of Queensland Press 1976; US$ 15.00Published in 1976, Papua New Guinea was the first book to interpret the main events leading to Papua New Guineas independence. The 1960s and 1970s in Papua New Guinea were a time of ferment and great excitement as Australias Territory moved quickly towards independence in 1975. Don Woolford worked as a journalist in Papua New Guinea and... more...
Under The Mountain Wall
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons. The result was this classic account, not of the expedition but of... more...
Structure and Process in Malan Society
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00Through its analysis of a Melanesian society (Ponam) and the ways it has changed in the 20th century, this book addresses the relationship between the concern with the structure and logic of social organization, and process, with the fluidity of events and individual strategy. Ponam is located on a small island in Papua New Guinea. The book describes... more...
Managing Animals in New Guinea
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 180.00Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment. more...
Biology Unmoored
University of California Press 2007; US$ 15.95Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings'... more...









