Perspectives Birds Head Irian by Dam Rien (1 results)

Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, thick large 8vo: xvi, 982pp., 42 contributions, graphs, tables, maps, plans, notes, bibliographical notes, list of contributors. Contents: Preface. Social Sciences and Humanities, Natural Sciences. 1. Andrew J. Strathern: Comparisons past and present: pathways and projections for Irian Studies. 2. Aprilani Soegiarto: Strengthening partnership through cooperative research. Anthropology, Demography, Ethnohistory: From Inland to Coast. 3. E.K.M. Masinambow: Anthropological fieldwork and international cooperation. 4. Ien Courtens: "As one woman to the other". Female ritual healers in Northwest Ayfat. 5. Louise Thoonen: "We have accepted the father first". The arrival of the Catholic Church in Northwest Ayfat. 6. Jaap Timmer: Lost power, concealed knowledge, and the return of the Kingdom among the Imyan of the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya. 7. Hendrika Lautenbach: Demographic survey research: data gathering (problems) on the subject of fertility in the Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya. 8. Dianne VAN Oosterhout: Fertility and the mediating body in Inanwatan, south coastal Bird's Head of Irian Jaya. 9. Jan Pouwer: The enigma of the unfinished male: an entry to East Bird's Head mytho-logics, Irian Jaya. 10. Jelle Miedema: Culture hero stories and tales of tricksters. The Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya in a comparative perspective (II). 11. Paul Haenen: History, exchange, and myth in the southeastern Bird's Head of Irian Jaya. Bird's Head Anthropology and Related Areas: Inland, Coast and Beyond. 12. John Liep: Connubia in the making: a comparative view on the kain timur complex. 13. Pamela J. Steart: Ritual trackways and sacred paths of fertility. 14. Volker Heeschen: New Guinea myths and fairy tales seen from the Irian Jaya mountains. 15. Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew J. Strathern: Pathways of power, rumors of fear: the imagination of space in montane New Guinea. 16. David Mearns: Urban social forms in Eastern Indonesia: multiple logics and lived experience. 17. Christopher J. Healey: Political economy in the Kepala Burung region of Old Western New Guinea. 18. Sarlito Wirawan Saerwono: The Amungme and the Kamoro in Mimikma Timur: a psychological analysis. 19. Roosmalawati Rusman: Youth, education and employment in Irian Jaya. History. 20. F. Huizinga: Relations between Tidore and the north coast of New Guinea in the nineteenth century. 21. Tom Goodman: The sosolot exchange network in Eastern Indonesia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 22. Jeroen A. Overweel: "A systematic activity". Military exploration in Western New Guinea, 1907-1915. 23. P.J. Drooglever: Documents on the contest for Western New Guinea/Irian Barat, 1945-1963. 24. A.K. Ogloblin: Commemorating N.N. Miklukho-Maclay (recent Russian publications). Linguistics: Bird's Head and Beyond. 25. William A. Foley: Toward understanding Papuan languages. 26. Christine Berry: The art of the storyteller in Abun society. 27. etc. Very fine copy - as new.