Conceiving cultures : reproducing people & places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea / Shelley Mallett

Author:: Mallett, Shelley, 1960-
Published:: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: xi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Introduction: imagining the field -- Tracing Nuakata -- Colonial impregnations -- Bearing the inconceivable -- Belongings -- Planting the past, tending the future -- Living death -- Conclusion: remembering Nuakata.

Subject(s):

Massim (Papua New Guinean people)—Social life and customs
Birth customs—Papua New Guinea—Nuakata Island
Philosophy, Massim—Papua New Guinea—Nuakata Island
Nuakata Island (Papua New Guinea)—Social life and customs

ISBN:

0472098284 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472068288 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.

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