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Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms
Ethnographies of Experience
Edited by Ingjerd Hoëm and Sidsel Roalkvam
Introduction by Jonathan Friedman
Epilogue by Fredrik Barth
226 pages, 6 diagrams, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-558-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (February 2003)
eISBN 978-1-78920-422-3 eBook
Description
In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously favored emphasis on symbolic and social structures. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice as aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated.
With Jonathan Friedman and Fredrik Barth providing overviews, this series of innovative ethnographies highlights ways of forming social relations specific to Oceania as a cultural area, exemplifying a new kind of comparative approach and making a major contribution to general social theory.
Ingjerd Hoëm is Head of the Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History at the Kon-Tiki Museum.
Sidsel Roalkvam is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
Area: Asia-Pacific
Contents
Of Related Interest
Transactions and Creations
Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia
Creative Land
Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea's Last Place
Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
