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Canberra Anthropology

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VOLUME 22 (1) APRIL 1999

ARTICLES

Special Focus on Myth and History in the New Guinea Highlands
(Guest Editor: Chris Ballard)

Chris Ballard and Jeffrey Clark
Blurred boundaries and transformed identities: myth and ritual in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Jeffrey Clark
Cause and Afek: primal women, bachelor cults and the female spirit

Polly Weissner and Akii Tumu
A collage of cults

Michael Nihill
Time and the red other: myth, history and the paradoxes of power in Anganen

Patrick Guiness
Local community and the state

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

Paul Alexander
Markets and shopping

Christine Weir
Contesting the 'civilising mission'


BOOK REVIEWS

Mandy Thomas
Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson, Migrants of identity: perceptions of home in a world of movement

Deborah Bird Rose
Francesca Merlan, Caging the rainbow: place, politics and Aborigines in a north Australian town

Justine Cannon
Richard Howitt with John Connel and Philip Hirsch (eds), Resources, nations and indigenous people: case studies from Australasia, Melanesia and Southeast Asia

Alexander Soucy
Nguyen van Chinh, Social change in rural Vietnam: children's work and seasonal migration

Tim Denham
Peter Bellwood, Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

Rosemary Dunlop
Bob Simpson, Changing families: an ethnographic approach to divorce and separation

Andrew Walker
R.D. Grillo and R.L. Stirrat, Discourses of development: anthropological perspectives

Patrick Guinness
Diane J. Austin-Broos, Jamaica genesis: religion and the politics of moral order

Todd Harple
Hal Levine and Anton Ploeg (eds), Work in progress: essays in New Guinea Highlands ethnography in honour of Paula Brown Glick

James F. Weiner David Lipset, Mangrove man: dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary

Francesca Merlan
Michael Jackson, Minima ethnographica: intersubjectivity and the anthropological project

Christine Weir
Ton Otto and Ad Borsboom (eds), Cultural dynamics of religious change in Oceania

Christine Weir
Michael Kwa'ioloa and Ben Burt, Living tradition: a changing life in the Solomon Islands

Alexander Soucy
Michael W. Young, Malinowski's Kiriwina: fieldwork photography 1915-1918

James F. Weiner
Richard Eves, The magic body: power, fame and meaning in a Melanesian society


CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Paul Alexander
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney

Chris Ballard
Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Jeffrey Clark
Formerly Visiting Fellow, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, The Australian National University (deceased)

Patrick Guiness
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, The Australian National University

Michael Nihill
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney

Akii Tumu
Enga Cultural Centre, Wabag, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Christine Weir
Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Polly Wiessner
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City


REVIEWERS

Justine Cannon
The School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Tim Denham
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, The Australian National University

Rosemary Dunlop
Psychology Department, Macquarie University

Patrick Guiness
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, The Australian National University

Todd Harple
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Francesca Merlan
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, The Australian National University

Deborah Bird Rose
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Alexander Soucy
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Mandy Thomas
Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, School of Cultural Histories and Futures, University of Western Sydney (Nepean)

Andrew Walker
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

James Weiner
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Christine Weir
Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

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