Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives (Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph Series)

Stewart, P. J.

ISBN 10: 0822957167 / ISBN 13: 9780822957164

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780822957164.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives (Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Monograph Series)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822957167
• ISBN 13: 9780822957164
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

Published for the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceana. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author

Pamela J. Stewart is a research associate in anthropology and religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh and is adjunct lecturer in anthropology at the James Cook University (Townsville Australia). Her interests are in gender issues, political and religious change, violence, and medical anthropology, and her research is conducted in Papua New Guinea and Lowland Scotland. Her most recent coauthored books are Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective and The Python's Back: Pathways of Comparison Between Indonesia and Melanesia. She and Andrew Strathern have also coedited a special issue of the journal Ethnohistory, entitled "Millennial Countdown in New Guinea."

Andrew Strathern is Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are in the fields of political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, and historical change. Most recently, he co-edited, with Pamela J. Stewart, Collaborations and Conflicts: A Leader Through Time and co-authored Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. His research is currently conducted in Lowland Scotland as well as Papua New Guinea.