Landscapes of Relations and Belonging: Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

Landscapes of Relations and Belonging: Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

Astrid Anderson
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Author:  Astrid Anderson
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  324
Publisher:  Berghahn Books
Year:  2011
ISBN:  9781845457754

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people's activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography.

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