Category: Oceania
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Discussion: Tales of the Tikongs
Hau’ofa, E. (1994 [1984]). Tales of the Tikongs. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i of Press.
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Discussion: Development and Dispossession
Anthropology of Oceania Wendt, A. (1974). A Sermon on Rot. New Guinea 9(2): 16-26. Selections from West, P. (2016). Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea. New York: Columbia University Press. Anthropology of Oceania
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Discussion: Money, God, and Gender
Anth 475 (R) ANTHROPOLOGY OF OCEANIA < Week 6 Cox, J. and M. Macintyre (2014). Christian Marriage, Money Scams, and Melanesian Social Imaginaries. Oceania 84(2): 138-157. Demian, M. (2017). Making Women in the City: Notes from a Port Moresby Boarding House. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42(2): 403-425. Hviding, E. (2015). Big…
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Discussion: The Anthropology of the Good
Anth 475 (R) ANTHROPOLOGY OF OCEANIA < Week 6 Tomlinson, M. (2016). Little People, Ghosts and the Anthropology of the Good. The Polynesian Society 125(1): 11-32. Martin, K. (2018). “‘This Custom from the Past Is No Good’: Grassroots, ‘Big Shots’ and a Contested Moral Economy in East New Britain.” In The Quest for the Good…
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Discussion: Mana and Taboo in Video Gaming
Anthropology of Oceania Golub, A. (2004). Copyright and Taboo. Anthropological Quarterly 77(3): 521-530. Golub, A. (2014, Jun. 17). The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic. The Appendix. Anthropology of Oceania