In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-firstcentury int...

The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Gui...

Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin presents a detailed understanding and analysis of the ideology o...

A beleaguered indigenous population came to the attention of the world in 1997 by threatening mas...

'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.'This Bawòng proverb means: surrende...

Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self andother, as experienced in the everyday ch...

In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ran...

The Things We Value takes as its subject the creativity and cultural heritage of Solomon Islands,...

Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making,...

The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

This volume gives a vital and unique insight into the effects of mining and other forms of resour...

This impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and ...