Ellen E Facey
Biographic Data
| ID | 131691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen E Facey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Facey |
| SIGNATURE | FACEY E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Allison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blood" and "Line
This paper gives a substantive description of the symbolic aspects of a modern Pacific society's kinship system. A brief overview of kinship terminology from Nguna, Vanuatu is followed by an exegesis of four key concepts concerning kinship and descent. Ngunese procreation theory is then introduced and compared with material from Ambae, Vanuatu (Poewe and Lovell, 1980; Rodman and Lovell, n.d.) which raises the question of the meaning of Lounsbury'…
Oceania
Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg and Cluny Macpherson, Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Islanders, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 249 pages.The material is presented in three independent parts: South-West Pacific by Strathern and Stewart (67 pp. of text), Pacific by Feinberg and Macpherson (53 pp.), and West Central Pacific by Carucci and Poyer (52 pp.).In …
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia
Raymond FIRTH with Mervyn MCLEAN, Tikopia Songs
Pacific Studies Special Issue
Nguna Voices
This book is unique in several respects: it is the first monograph to be written concerning the Pacific culture of Vanuatu; it includes thirty-three oral texts in their original language as well as in English translation; it contains an exhaustive glossary of the foreign vocabulary; and it provides information of a sort rarely seen in textual collections, concerning the methodology and problems involved in textual transcription, translation and p…
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Nguna Voices
This book is unique in several respects: it is the first monograph to be written concerning the Pacific culture of Vanuatu; it includes thirty-three oral texts in their original language as well as in English translation; it contains an exhaustive glossary of the foreign vocabulary; and it provides information of a sort rarely seen in textual collections, concerning the methodology and problems involved in textual transcription, translation and p…
Pacific Studies Special Issue
Raymond FIRTH with Mervyn MCLEAN, Tikopia Songs
Oceania
Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Laurence M. Carucci, Lin Poyer, Richard Feinberg and Cluny Macpherson, Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Islanders, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 249 pages.The material is presented in three independent parts: South-West Pacific by Strathern and Stewart (67 pp. of text), Pacific by Feinberg and Macpherson (53 pp.), and West Central Pacific by Carucci and Poyer (52 pp.).In …
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia
Blood" and "Line
This paper gives a substantive description of the symbolic aspects of a modern Pacific society's kinship system. A brief overview of kinship terminology from Nguna, Vanuatu is followed by an exegesis of four key concepts concerning kinship and descent. Ngunese procreation theory is then introduced and compared with material from Ambae, Vanuatu (Poewe and Lovell, 1980; Rodman and Lovell, n.d.) which raises the question of the meaning of Lounsbury'…
History (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 works)