How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial...

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses...

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of ...

What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experie...

This book provides a wide ranging introduction to the meaning and context of violence. The author...

Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which ...

In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the...

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Stra...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in...

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The c...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and ...