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An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia - Culture and Tradition (Paperback)
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An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia - Culture and Tradition (Paperback)
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This Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia is intended for
undergraduate anthropology students with some grounding in the
issues and ideas that inform the discipline, and for courses in
Pacific Studies. Each chapter focuses on a topic common to many
cultures in the region, such as the role of so-called Big Men,
ancestors, male initiation, and exchange, and these ideas are
fleshed out with apt ethnographic examples. Melanesia is a
fascinating culture area, and has always been a popular fieldwork
site for anthropologists, including W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw
Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Some of the most
important theoretical contributions to the subject were also first
formulated with reference to Melanesian studies, and students today
still learn much of their basic anthropology from Melanesian
examples.
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