Becoming sinners [[electronic resource] ] : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / / by Joel Robbins
| Becoming sinners [[electronic resource] ] : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / / by Joel Robbins |
| Autore | Robbins Joel <1961-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6/09957/7 |
| Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
| Soggetto topico | Christianity - Papua New Guinea - Urapmin |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
anthropology baptist missionaries christian converts christian culture christian life christian missionaries christianity cultural anthropologists cultural change cultural perspective discussion books good and evil human condition melanesian society moral torment morality and sin nonfiction papua new guinea society papua new guinea rapid change religious experiences religious studies remote tribe sinfulness social anthropology social change theoretical urapmin |
| ISBN |
9786612762888
1-282-76288-5 0-520-93708-2 1-59734-483-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part one : becoming sinners -- From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period -- Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations -- Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church -- Part two : living in sin -- Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space -- Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality -- Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality -- Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self -- Millennialism and the contest of values -- Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783388003321 |
Robbins Joel <1961->
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford
| Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology / / Sandra Bamford |
| Autore | Bamford Sandra C. <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 305.89/912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Ethnobiology
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Agriculture Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) - Psychology Human body - Social aspects - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province Ethnobiology - Papua New Guinea - Gulf Province Biotechnology Genetic engineering |
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assisted reproductive technologies
biodiversity biologists biology biotechnology cloning environmental impacts ethnographers ethnographic research genetically modified organisms gmos human condition human genome mapping human impact human relationships melanesia natural world nonfiction organic life papua new guinea physiological reproduction reproductive technologies sex and culture sexual reproduction social science western ideas |
| ISBN |
1-282-35837-5
9786612358371 0-520-93947-6 1-4337-0138-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: conceptual frameworks -- Cultural landscapes -- Insubstantial identities -- Embodiments of detachment -- (Im) mortal undertakings -- Conceiving global identities -- Conclusion: conceptual displacements. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784411803321 |
Bamford Sandra C. <1962->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007 | ||
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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst
| Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
| Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792729103321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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| New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst
| Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
| Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828740603321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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| New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
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Cheap meat [[electronic resource] ] : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
| Cheap meat [[electronic resource] ] : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington |
| Autore | Gewertz Deborah B. <1948-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 394.1/20996.5 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ErringtonFrederick Karl |
| Soggetto topico |
Nutritional anthropology - Pacific Islands
Lamb meat industry - Pacific Islands Mutton industry - Pacific Islands Animal gut industries - Pacific Islands Food habits - Pacific Islands |
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anthropology
australia belly meat controversial cuts of meat discount meat ethnic differences ethnographers farms and farmers fatty cuts fatty meat fiji flap food food politics historical human rights inexpensive meat lamb meat farming meat market meat trade mutton new zealand nonfiction nutrition policies pacific islanders pacific islands papua new guinea second class status social issues social nutrition social science tonga trade policies |
| ISBN |
1-282-35982-7
9786612359828 0-520-94597-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. What's Not on Our Plates -- ONE. Thinking about Meat -- TWO. Making Flaps -- THREE. Trading Meat -- FOUR. Papua New Guinea's Flaps -- FIVE. Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs -- SIX. Pacific Island Flaps -- CONCLUSION. One Supersize Does Not Fit All -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781196303321 |
Gewertz Deborah B. <1948->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Conflict and resource development in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea / / Nicole Haley and Ronald J. May (editors)
| Conflict and resource development in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea / / Nicole Haley and Ronald J. May (editors) |
| Autore | Haley Nicole |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 330.99561 |
| Collana | Studies in state and society in the Pacific |
| Soggetto topico | Politics & government |
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natural resources
papua new guinea social conflict management southern highlands province integroup relations Hela Province Kiap |
| ISBN |
9781921313462
1921313463 9781921313455 1921313455 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141943603321 |
Haley Nicole
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| Canberra, : ANU Press, 2007 | ||
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Emotions, senses, spaces : ethnographic engagements and intersections / / edited by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon [[electronic resource]]
| Emotions, senses, spaces : ethnographic engagements and intersections / / edited by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | R. Hemer Susan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Adelaide Press, 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 152.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Emotions
Space perception |
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alison dundon
hip hop scene susan r. hemer pontic dance jayne curnow sensual feasting ethnographic intersections papua new guinea william skinner dancing for joy vibe kirrilly thompson rejoneo diane rodgers valerie liddle spanish bullfight from horseback interrupted research hip hop concerts flores wine anthony heathcote ethnographic interspecies edgework sarah homan reikim voices in the park sociotechnical networks ngadha emotions judith haines nepal spaces ethnography senses mclaren vale anxious spaces Anthropology |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136477803321 |
| R. Hemer Susan | ||
| University of Adelaide Press, 2016 | ||
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Fire mountains of the islands : a history of volcanic eruptions and disaster management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands / / R. Wally Johnson
| Fire mountains of the islands : a history of volcanic eruptions and disaster management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands / / R. Wally Johnson |
| Autore | Johnson R. Wally |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.3495095 |
| Soggetto topico |
Volcanic eruptions - Soloman Islands
Volcanic eruptions - Papua New Guinea Emergency management - Soloman Islands Emergency management - Papua New Guinea |
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emergency management
papua new guinea solomon islands volcanic eruptions Caldera Earthquake Rabaul |
| ISBN | 1-922144-23-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preliminary pages; Foreword; Acknowledgements and Sources; Volcano Names and Totals; 1. Burning Islands and Dampier's Voyage: 1700; Track of the Roebuck; Near Oceania, Melanesia and Melanesians; Early Ideas about Volcanic Activity; Preview; 2. Volcano Sightings by European Navigators: 1528-1870; Saavedra, Retes and Mendaña; Schouten, Le Maire and Tasman; Carteret, Hunter, D'Entrecasteaux and ParkerWilson; European and Melanesian Viewpoints; 3. European Intruders and the 1878 Rabaul Eruption: 1870-1883; Blanche Bay and the Tolai; Miklouho-Maclay; Traders, Missionaries and a GentlemanExplorer
1878 Eruption at RabaulPowell's Voyage and a Possible Eruption 'Pulse'; Volcanological Events Elsewhere; 4. Volcanic Events of the German Era: 1884-1914; Colonial Partitioning; Ritter Island Disaster; Hahl and Sapper; Time Cluster of Eruptions; 5. Australian Colonists and the Volcanoes of Mainland New Guinea:1849-1938; First Impressions; British New Guinea and Victory Volcano; Evan R. Stanley in Papua; Australians in the Territory of New Guinea after 1920; Australians in the Territory of Papua before 1938; 6. Calderas, Ignimbrites and the1937 Eruption at Rabaul: 1914-1940 Garrison Life and VolcanoesAustralian Expedition along the Bismarck Volcanic Arc; Calderas and Ignimbrites; Eruption at Rabaul in 1937; Subsequent Investigations at Rabaul; 7. Eruptions during the Pacific Warand Postwar Recovery: 1941-1950; Fisher and Renewed Activity from Tavurvur; Kizawa and the Sulphur Creek Observatory; Eruptions at Goropu Volcano, Papua; Hiroshima, Surges and Postwar Recovery; Changing the Volcanological Leadership; 8. Disaster at Lamington: 1951-1952; Higaturu and the Orokaiva; Build-up to Catastrophe; Relief and Recovery; Seeking Explanation and Meaning; Aftermath 9. Tony Taylor and an Eruption Time Cluster: 1951-1966Eruptions of 1951-1957; Experiments in Prediction; Long Island Evacuation of 1953-1954; Bam Tragedy of 1954-1955; Evacuation of Manam and the 1956-1966 Eruptions; Tuluman 1953-1957 and the Obsidian Minersof Lou; 10. Plate Tectonics and False Alarms:1960-1972; Advances in Science and Technology; Gas Emissions from Two Highlands Volcanoes; Volcanic-Disaster Preparations at WauTownship in 1967; Evacuation from Dawson Strait in 1969; Origin of the Dawson Strait Earthquakes and a Note on Volcanic False Alarms Tectonic Earthquakes and the End of theTaylor Era11. Cooke-Ravian and a Volcanic Resurgence: 1971-1979; New Eruption Time Cluster; Ulawun and the Threat of Cone Collapse; Long Island Disaster and Tibito Tephra; Yomba and Cook: Two 'Mystery' Volcanoes; Fatal Eruption on Karkar in 1979; 12. Eruption Alert at Rabaul Caldera:1971-1994; Crisis Build-up and Stage-2 Alert; Scientific Responses to the Caldera Unrest; Worldwide Volcanic Crises and Developments in Risk Awareness; Costs, Benefits and Crisis Decline: 1985-1994; Volcanic Alert on Simbo Island; 13. Eruptions at Rabaul: 1994-1999 First Three Weeks |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140192303321 |
Johnson R. Wally
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| Canberra, : ANU Press, 2013 | ||
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How the cows turned mad [[electronic resource] ] : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle
| How the cows turned mad [[electronic resource] ] : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle |
| Autore | Schwartz Maxime <1940-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Prion diseases in animals - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
beef biology brain infection cannibalism carnism carnivore cattle cows disease food and culture food studies food genetics health heredity infectious disease kuru life sciences mad cow mammals meat eating meat medical nonfiction medical science medicine molecular biology neuroscience nonfiction papua new guinea pasteur prion disease prion hypothesis science scrapie sheep transmissible spongiform encephalopathy tse zoology |
| ISBN |
1-282-35762-X
9786612357626 0-520-93151-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY -- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES -- 3: MAO DOGS AND EARTHWORMS -- 4: SCRAPIE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE -- 5: CREUTZFELOT, JAKOB, AND OTHERS -- 6: SCRAPIE IS INOCULABLE -- 7: AND GOATS, AND MICE -- 8: SCRAPIE IS CONTAGIOUS -- 9: KURU AND THE FORE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- 10: THE WALL COMES DOWN -- 11: FROM PEARL NECKLACE TO DOUBLE HELIX -- 12: THE PHANTOM VIRUS -- 13: A TRAGEDY I N THE MAKING -- 14: ONE CASE PER MILLION -- 15: PRIONS -- 16: APRIL 1985 -- 17: THE "KISS OF DEATH" -- 18: THE RETURN OF THE SPONTANEISTS -- 19: TO GROW-AND TO DIE -- 20: LESSONS LEARNED -- 21: HAVE THE COWS GONE MAD? -- 22: FROM COWS TO HUMANS -- 23: FROM COWS TO SHEEP? FROM HUMANS TO HUMANS? -- 24: THE SECRET IN THE CLOSET -- 25: UNMASKING "THE DISEASE" -- 26: HAVE WE CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? -- 27: 2001 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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In the absence of the gift : new forms of value and personhood in a Papua New Guinea community / / by Anders Emil Rasmussen
| In the absence of the gift : new forms of value and personhood in a Papua New Guinea community / / by Anders Emil Rasmussen |
| Autore | Rasmussen Anders Emil |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina | 995.8/1 |
| Collana | Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for oceanists |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Papua New Guinea
Community life - Papua New Guinea Kinship - Papua New Guinea Social values - Papua New Guinea Identity (Psychology) - Papua New Guinea Individuality - Papua New Guinea |
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admiralty islands
bismarck archipelago bureaucrats businessmen cash economy community member community development ethnography family bonds family kinship manus province manus mbuke islands migrant relatives motivation papua new guinea papua new guinean community people of the mbuke islands personhood relative remittance documents remittance motivations social connections society teachers urban centers value |
| ISBN | 1-78238-782-X |
| Classificazione | LC 20692 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Historical Roots of a Singaut Economy -- 2 Visible While Away -- 3 The Power of Words -- 4 It’s Never Tomorrow -- 5 The Historical Roots of Community as a Level of Organization and as a Concept -- 6 To Benefit the Community -- 7 All Things Considered -- Conclusion -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797894503321 |
Rasmussen Anders Emil
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| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
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