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Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific
to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin
language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of
pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin
and Solomons languages.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is
a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology.
Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications
of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the global
conditions of inequality caused by the spread of capitalist
relations of production. Thus, his book is more "political" than
other introductory texts in the field. Keesing was also committed
to the belief that students should not merely memorize terms and
theories, but should also be challenged to ponder the deep
questions raised by human diversity. Roger Keesing's untimely death
in 1992 necessitated that a co-author execute his planned revision.
Dr. Andrew Strathern was chosen because, like Keesing, his training
is in the British social anthropological tradition, his fieldwork
has concentrated on the Pacific, and his recent teaching experience
has acquainted him with American cultural anthropology. In this
revision, Dr. Strathern preserved Keesing's vision, arguments, and
the ethnographies presented as illustrations of Keesing's theories,
while also examining each sentence to determine whether its
assertions needed to be updated, modified, or abandoned. Small
changes made in this way incorporated a larger aim of updating and
recasting the book to better fit and reflect a world 20 years since
publication of the first edition.
"Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book
because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by
theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral
take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who
were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet
prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning
and value."--William Rodman, "Anthropologica"
"A major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and
Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance.
But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of
peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas
and moralities on incommensurate--and apparently equally
arbitrary--principles, represents a major contribution and
challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of
what it is to be human."--Fredrik Barth
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