Christopher J Healey
Biographic Data
| ID | 628161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Healey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Healey |
| SIGNATURE | HEALEY C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Darwin Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Adaptive Significance of Systems of Ceremonial Exchange and Trade in the New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Inland Trade
Introduction
Trade, Marriage And Unequal Development In The Papua New Guinea Highlands
Culture as Transformed Disorder
Melanesian cosmologies typically lack clearly articulated formulation and an explicit exergetical tradition. Symbolic relations often remain implicit, with indeterminate, rather than fixed or static relations between categories. Through the use of ethnographic data on the Maring of the Papua New Guinea Highlands the paper argues that ‘cosmology’ should be analysed in terms of essentially subjective and contextually variable evocations, rather tha…
Pigs, Cassowaries, and the Gift of the Flesh
Symbolisme du casoar et du porc dans les echanges rituels a partir d'une recherche sur le terrain chez les Maring de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee| domestication des animaux et place du porc dans la cosmologie
Trade and Sociability
Analyses of material exchanges have concentrated on ceremonialized forms. Approaches to trade are poorly developed and are materialist and utilitarian. After presenting a distinction between prestations and trade based on actors' interpretations, this paper explores aspects of the sociable dimensions of Maring trade. While trade is indigenously defined as self-interested and pragmatic, it actually has the capacity to express and construct social …
Assimilation of Nonagnates Among the Kundagai Maring of the Papua New Guinea Highlands1
Trade and Sociability
Analyses of material exchanges have concentrated on ceremonialized forms. Approaches to trade are poorly developed and are materialist and utilitarian. After presenting a distinction between prestations and trade based on actors' interpretations, this paper explores aspects of the sociable dimensions of Maring trade. While trade is indigenously defined as self-interested and pragmatic, it actually has the capacity to express and construct social …
New Guinea Inland Trade
Pigs, Cassowaries, and the Gift of the Flesh
Symbolisme du casoar et du porc dans les echanges rituels a partir d'une recherche sur le terrain chez les Maring de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee| domestication des animaux et place du porc dans la cosmologie
The Adaptive Significance of Systems of Ceremonial Exchange and Trade in the New Guinea Highlands
Introduction
Assimilation of Nonagnates Among the Kundagai Maring of the Papua New Guinea Highlands1
Trade and Sociability
Analyses of material exchanges have concentrated on ceremonialized forms. Approaches to trade are poorly developed and are materialist and utilitarian. After presenting a distinction between prestations and trade based on actors' interpretations, this paper explores aspects of the sociable dimensions of Maring trade. While trade is indigenously defined as self-interested and pragmatic, it actually has the capacity to express and construct social …
Pigs, Cassowaries, and the Gift of the Flesh
Symbolisme du casoar et du porc dans les echanges rituels a partir d'une recherche sur le terrain chez les Maring de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee| domestication des animaux et place du porc dans la cosmologie
Culture as Transformed Disorder
Melanesian cosmologies typically lack clearly articulated formulation and an explicit exergetical tradition. Symbolic relations often remain implicit, with indeterminate, rather than fixed or static relations between categories. Through the use of ethnographic data on the Maring of the Papua New Guinea Highlands the paper argues that ‘cosmology’ should be analysed in terms of essentially subjective and contextually variable evocations, rather tha…
Introduction
Trade, Marriage And Unequal Development In The Papua New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Inland Trade
The Adaptive Significance of Systems of Ceremonial Exchange and Trade in the New Guinea Highlands
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · History (5 works) · New guinea (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Library science (2 works)