This paper examines affinal relations among the Panaeati — a canoe building people who live in southeast Papua New Guinea. The Panaeati exchange system is envisioned as a total economy: men verbally request goods from in-laws (and friends) to feed canoe builders; men trade the canoes and use the acquired goods to sponsor mortuary ceremonies; the ceremonies, in turn, lead to the acquisition of land rights for the builder/sponsor. Through an analysis of a tape recorded verbal request, the rules for social interaction between in-laws are delineated. This micro-level analysis complements the broader analysis of mortuary/land right exchanges, allowing the economy to be understood through some of the principles for face-to-face interaction outlin...
International audienceThe article analyses the male ritual cycle of the Ankave-Anga in Papua New Gui...
The Papua New Guinea state has, since independence, pursued increasingly corporatist policies of inv...
Studies of nation-states have tended to emphasize how they form a common national culture and the sy...
This paper examines affinal relations among the Panaeati — a canoe building people who live in south...
Melanesian cultures characteristically assign great importance to the transaction of objects, and ma...
This paper explores matrilineal kinship in the Buka area, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ...
1 v. : fold. mapsIn 1933, when the New Guinea Highlands were first explored, the Siane people used o...
In the Fasu region of Papua New Guinea’s fringe highlands, the oil extraction industry has imposed d...
© 2017 Dr Anaïs GérardThis thesis examines issues of social change, relationality and ontological co...
Most ethnographers working in Melanesia, while following the traditional descent-based method of an...
Pigs, yams, valuables, and women are items of exchange throughout New Guinea. Their widespread cerem...
Article en ligne sur le site de l'université de la Polynésie française, rubrique IRIDIP / RJP.Intern...
This ethnography is an account of children's place in social life affected by political and economic...
Sailing for Survival is a comparative study of the trading systems and canoes of two groups of peopl...
Article en ligne sur le site de l'université de la Polynésie française, rubrique IRIDIP / RJP.Intern...
International audienceThe article analyses the male ritual cycle of the Ankave-Anga in Papua New Gui...
The Papua New Guinea state has, since independence, pursued increasingly corporatist policies of inv...
Studies of nation-states have tended to emphasize how they form a common national culture and the sy...
This paper examines affinal relations among the Panaeati — a canoe building people who live in south...
Melanesian cultures characteristically assign great importance to the transaction of objects, and ma...
This paper explores matrilineal kinship in the Buka area, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, ...
1 v. : fold. mapsIn 1933, when the New Guinea Highlands were first explored, the Siane people used o...
In the Fasu region of Papua New Guinea’s fringe highlands, the oil extraction industry has imposed d...
© 2017 Dr Anaïs GérardThis thesis examines issues of social change, relationality and ontological co...
Most ethnographers working in Melanesia, while following the traditional descent-based method of an...
Pigs, yams, valuables, and women are items of exchange throughout New Guinea. Their widespread cerem...
Article en ligne sur le site de l'université de la Polynésie française, rubrique IRIDIP / RJP.Intern...
This ethnography is an account of children's place in social life affected by political and economic...
Sailing for Survival is a comparative study of the trading systems and canoes of two groups of peopl...
Article en ligne sur le site de l'université de la Polynésie française, rubrique IRIDIP / RJP.Intern...
International audienceThe article analyses the male ritual cycle of the Ankave-Anga in Papua New Gui...
The Papua New Guinea state has, since independence, pursued increasingly corporatist policies of inv...
Studies of nation-states have tended to emphasize how they form a common national culture and the sy...