Cultures of the Pacific

Cultures of the Pacific offers a selection of 28 readings representing anthropological research interests & cultural variation in the Pacific. The selections emphasize anthropological significance and relevance rather than substantive and geographical coverage. The articles are divided into 6 topical areas of major importance: Culture History Technology & Economics Social Life Politics & Social Control Religion Culture Change Among the selections included are "The Kon-Tiki Myth" by Robert C. Suggs, "The Primitive Economics of the Trobriand Islanders" by Bronislaw Malinowski, and "The Rights of Primitive Peoples" by Margaret Mead. Many of the selections, including 4 previously unpublished papers, have not been readily available to the reader. Editors' introductions to each section indicate the place of the individual contributions in Pacific studies in particular and in anthropology in general. Illustrations & tables complement the text. Cultures of the Pacific is designed primarily for undergraduate & graduate courses in the anthropology of Pacific peoples & cultures. It will also find application in courses dealing with the cultural geography & history of the Pacific, as well as those concerned with the political science & economic development of the area.

Ben J. Wallace

Thomas G. Harding

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Anthropology has a prominent history among the hill peoples of the Philippines, as chronicled by the discipline's pioneers who conducted research in Luzon, the largest archipelago in the Philippines and home to minority indigenous tribes, including the Ga'dang. In Weeds, Roads, and God, seasoned ethnographer Ben Wallace offers readers a blend of empirical and interpretative data from his original fieldwork among the Ga'dang in the mid-sixties and his follow-up study nearly a half-century later. With considerable authority and insight, Wallace documents this people's remarkable adaptation and longitudinal response to environmental, social, economic, and spiritual change over a period of almost fifty years—something few ethnographers have accomplished.
 For Wallace and his readers, this restudy yields a sound and compelling understanding of culture change. Ideal as a supplement in introductory courses as well as courses on Southeast Asia, field methods, and culture change, modernization, and globalization, such an appealing comparative work sheds light on challenges, traditions, and trends experienced by both the ethnographer and the members of the Philippine community he studied.

Weeds, Roads, and God: A Half-Century of Culture Change among the Philippine Ga'dang

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Waveland Press. Inc.

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