Maria Lepowsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 129363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Lepowsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Lepowsky |
| SIGNATURE | LEPOWSKY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trickster Tales
CHAPTER 9 Thomas Huxley, Field Ethnographer
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Ethnographic Border Crossings and the Rise of a Global Pacific
Fruit of the Motherland
PrefaceMaps1. Island Encounters2. Fruit of the Motherland3. Island Lives4. Ancestors and Other Spirits5. Sorcerers and Witches6. The Living, the Dead, and Relations of Value7. Fruit of the Dead8. Gender and PowerNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
Women, men, and aggression in an egalitarian society
Writing For Many Audiences
An Anthropologist in Media Land
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The Way of the Ancestors
Sorcery and penicillin
Big Men, Big Women, and Cultural Autonomy
Etude diachronique de l'organisation socio-politique du systeme d'echange, de circulation et de redistribution des richesses, et du role politique des femmes dans la competition pour le leadership prestigieux de Big Woman chez les Massim (Ile Vanatinai ou Tagula, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee); impact des mutations socio-economiques et politico-religieuses depuis la colonisation
Food taboos, malaria and dietary change
Despite seemingly abundant food resources, child malnutrition is prevalent on Vanatinai (Sudest Island), Papua New Guinea according to government surveys. Cultural adaptations to new technology, new cultigens, and new political systems have resulted in changes in subsistence strategies from a greater reliance on the collection of wild foods to a heavy emphasis on cultivation of starchy tubers. These may have negatively affected the nutritional st…
Sorcery and penicillin
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Big Men, Big Women, and Cultural Autonomy
Etude diachronique de l'organisation socio-politique du systeme d'echange, de circulation et de redistribution des richesses, et du role politique des femmes dans la competition pour le leadership prestigieux de Big Woman chez les Massim (Ile Vanatinai ou Tagula, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee); impact des mutations socio-economiques et politico-religieuses depuis la colonisation
Women, men, and aggression in an egalitarian society
The Way of the Ancestors
Food taboos, malaria and dietary change
Despite seemingly abundant food resources, child malnutrition is prevalent on Vanatinai (Sudest Island), Papua New Guinea according to government surveys. Cultural adaptations to new technology, new cultigens, and new political systems have resulted in changes in subsistence strategies from a greater reliance on the collection of wild foods to a heavy emphasis on cultivation of starchy tubers. These may have negatively affected the nutritional st…
Sorcery and penicillin
Big Men, Big Women, and Cultural Autonomy
Etude diachronique de l'organisation socio-politique du systeme d'echange, de circulation et de redistribution des richesses, et du role politique des femmes dans la competition pour le leadership prestigieux de Big Woman chez les Massim (Ile Vanatinai ou Tagula, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee); impact des mutations socio-economiques et politico-religieuses depuis la colonisation
The Way of the Ancestors
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Women, men, and aggression in an egalitarian society
Writing For Many Audiences
An Anthropologist in Media Land
Fruit of the Motherland
PrefaceMaps1. Island Encounters2. Fruit of the Motherland3. Island Lives4. Ancestors and Other Spirits5. Sorcerers and Witches6. The Living, the Dead, and Relations of Value7. Fruit of the Dead8. Gender and PowerNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
Ethnographic Border Crossings and the Rise of a Global Pacific
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
CHAPTER 9 Thomas Huxley, Field Ethnographer
Trickster Tales
Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Citation (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)