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1991. South Pacific, Oceania, New Guuinea. Cambridge University Press. Very good - near fine boards and dust jacket 387p.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by the two editors, Alan Rumsey and James F. Weiner, and by Jurg Wassmann, Roy Wagner, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Deborah Bird Rose, Anthony Redmond, James F. Weiner, Andrew Lattas, Eric Kline Silverman, Lissant Bolton. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. vii, 281 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 387pp, appendices, notes, glossary, bibiography, index, a very good copy in little sunned dustjacket. No 10 in Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language. The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. Ku Waru deals centrally with the conduct of particular exchange events, and shows through examination of them how larger social structures are reproduced and transformed. As part of the emphasis on exchange as social action, the book closely examines the oratory that plays a crucial part in the events. Basing their study on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey focus on an inter related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of warfare. This cycle is particularly remarkable as women had stopped the fighting and participated for the first time as transactors and orators in the ensuing exchange events. This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures and historical events; and particularly of the crucial role of talk. It will be of special interest to anthropologists and linguists.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Half title page bears a name in pen plus a schematic sketch in pencil, otherwise internally clean. Binding good. 309pp Size: 170mm x 240mm. Book.

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8vo. viii+310pp. Original wrappers, a fine copy. . First editon. Includes a full L.R. Hiatt bibliography.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Light general wear to covers. Spine not creased. Half title page bears a name in pen plus a schematic sketch in pencil, otherwise internally clean. Binding good. 309pp Size: 170mm x 240mm. Book.

387pp, appendix, glossary, notes, reference, index, spine sunned, very good in dustjacket. This study based on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, one of the areas of the highlands known for its elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange, focuses on an inter-related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of warfare. This cycle is particularly remarkable as women had stopped the fighting and participated for the first time as transactors and orators in the ensuing exchange events. This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures and historical events; and particularly of the crucial role of talk. (From the publisher's description).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997. Large octavo, viii, 309 pages with a map and some illustrations (including 7 from photographs). Card covers lightly scuffed and marked; an excellent copy. 'This volume celebrates the life and work of one of Australia's foremost anthropologists' (rear cover blurb).

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 120 pp., bibliography. In this book we attempt to establish the genetic related ness of a set of some twenty named regional speech varieties of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia . We argue that, contrary to recent claims by some scholars, they constitute a genetic family-like unit. The case is argued by application of the comparative method, along with a lexical-statistical method, a modified version of lexicostatistics, that compares lexical similarities (in both form and semantics) within the basic vocabularies of the languages with no presumption of genetic relatedness. The results of these two independent methods are in substantial agreement, thus providing independent support for our proposals. The main thrust of the volume is an application of the comparative method, whereby we establish the genetic relatedness of the languages by reconstructing features-mainly phonological and grammatical, to a lesser extent lexical-of a protolanguage from which features of the modern languages could plausibly have derived. We also present comparative evidence that three primary subgroups can be distinguished in the family.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 201 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. James F. Weiner is Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heideg.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been noted by researchers working in the Highlands, and some recordings made of them, most of these genres have not been studied in detail until quite recently, mainly because of the challenging range of disciplinary expertise that is required-in anthropology, linguistics, and ethnomusicology. This volume presents a set of interrelated studies by researchers in all of those fields, and by a Papua New Guinea Highlander who has assisted with the research based on his lifelong familiarity with one of the regional genres. The studies presented here (all of them previously unpublished and written especially for this volume) are of groundbreaking significance not only for specialists in Melanesia or the Pacific, but also for readers with a more general interest in comparative poetics, mythology, musicology, or verbal art.

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