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Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK (R)
The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. …
The Python's Back
Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural themes, this study makes a fresh comparison of themes that interrelate …
Landscape, Memory and History
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the …
Kinship in Action
For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, general, introductory works and …
Gender, Song, and Sensibility
The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from …
Language and Culture in Dialogue
In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between "e;language in particular"e; and "e;culture in general"e; by focusing on …
Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology
This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in …
Diaspora, Disasters, and the Cosmos
Remaking the World
Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in …
Sacred Revenge in Oceania
Revenge is an important motivation in human affairs relating to conflict and violence, and it is a notable feature in many societies within Oceania, where revenge is traditionally …