Naomi M Mcpherson
Biographic Data
| ID | 133624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi M Mcpherson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcpherson |
| SIGNATURE | MCPHERSON N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Okanagan College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Van Heekeren, Deborah: The Shark Warrior of Alewai. A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity
Anthropos , Seite 372 - 374
Making Sense of Aids: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
Myth, Primogeniture and Long Distance Trade‐Friends in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea
The origins of ceremonies for firstborn children and long distance trade networks are embedded in Bariai mythology and cosmology. Based on my ethnographic research and the ethnographic reportage contained in the Australian colonial Patrol Officers' Reports, this paper explores the pre‐ and post‐contact trade networks of Bariai parents as they pursue a reputation for ‘renown’ by entering into complex trade‐friendships ( sobo ) and exchanges for th…
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology
Regna Darnell, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, xxvii + 373 pages.Reviewer: Naomi McPherson Okanagan University CollegeThere is a rhetoric of discontinuity among contemporary anthropologists that renders invisible the intellectual genealogies of American anthropology, particularly in relation to Franz Boas and his first generation of students (p. xiv). Darnell brilliantly and convincingly argues that, regardless of where th…
Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History
Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
The Plantation Dream: Developing British New Guinea and Papua 1884-1942
denouement and a gradual reassessment.The residue of all the effort expended before 1942 survived to grow, flourish and wilt again in another age itself now closed or closing.The account that follows could not have been written without the willingness of some old settlers to recollect their lives in Papua and to respond to questions that were sometimes painful to answer
Women Writing Culture
A Question of Morality: Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance among the Kabana, West New Britain
For the Kabana of New Britain, deviant behaviour is es sentially the advancement of self-interest untempered by self-regula tion such that the individual infringes on the ability of others to pur sue their own self-interest. Social labelling is applied to deviant behaviours, but no permanent stigma attaches to individuals. Reac tions to deviance include shame, gossip and ridicule, proceedings be fore the village magistrate and sorcery. The perfor…
The Plantation Dream: Developing British New Guinea and Papua 1884-1942
denouement and a gradual reassessment.The residue of all the effort expended before 1942 survived to grow, flourish and wilt again in another age itself now closed or closing.The account that follows could not have been written without the willingness of some old settlers to recollect their lives in Papua and to respond to questions that were sometimes painful to answer
A Question of Morality: Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance among the Kabana, West New Britain
For the Kabana of New Britain, deviant behaviour is es sentially the advancement of self-interest untempered by self-regula tion such that the individual infringes on the ability of others to pur sue their own self-interest. Social labelling is applied to deviant behaviours, but no permanent stigma attaches to individuals. Reac tions to deviance include shame, gossip and ridicule, proceedings be fore the village magistrate and sorcery. The perfor…
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology
Regna Darnell, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, xxvii + 373 pages.Reviewer: Naomi McPherson Okanagan University CollegeThere is a rhetoric of discontinuity among contemporary anthropologists that renders invisible the intellectual genealogies of American anthropology, particularly in relation to Franz Boas and his first generation of students (p. xiv). Darnell brilliantly and convincingly argues that, regardless of where th…
A Question of Morality: Sorcery and Concepts of Deviance among the Kabana, West New Britain
For the Kabana of New Britain, deviant behaviour is es sentially the advancement of self-interest untempered by self-regula tion such that the individual infringes on the ability of others to pur sue their own self-interest. Social labelling is applied to deviant behaviours, but no permanent stigma attaches to individuals. Reac tions to deviance include shame, gossip and ridicule, proceedings be fore the village magistrate and sorcery. The perfor…
Women Writing Culture
The Plantation Dream: Developing British New Guinea and Papua 1884-1942
denouement and a gradual reassessment.The residue of all the effort expended before 1942 survived to grow, flourish and wilt again in another age itself now closed or closing.The account that follows could not have been written without the willingness of some old settlers to recollect their lives in Papua and to respond to questions that were sometimes painful to answer
Home in the Islands: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology
Regna Darnell, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, xxvii + 373 pages.Reviewer: Naomi McPherson Okanagan University CollegeThere is a rhetoric of discontinuity among contemporary anthropologists that renders invisible the intellectual genealogies of American anthropology, particularly in relation to Franz Boas and his first generation of students (p. xiv). Darnell brilliantly and convincingly argues that, regardless of where th…
Myth, Primogeniture and Long Distance Trade‐Friends in Northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea
The origins of ceremonies for firstborn children and long distance trade networks are embedded in Bariai mythology and cosmology. Based on my ethnographic research and the ethnographic reportage contained in the Australian colonial Patrol Officers' Reports, this paper explores the pre‐ and post‐contact trade networks of Bariai parents as they pursue a reputation for ‘renown’ by entering into complex trade‐friendships ( sobo ) and exchanges for th…
Making Sense of Aids: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia
Van Heekeren, Deborah: The Shark Warrior of Alewai. A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity
Anthropos , Seite 372 - 374
History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works)