Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmer-Tamakoshi |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
First Fieldwork
First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960 – 1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays’ Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1993), First Fieldwork begins w…
Dispossession and the Environment
Reviewed by: Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea by Paige West Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (retired) Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea. By Paige West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. This little book is intensely disturbing. West starts off introducing readers to Papua New Guinea (PNG), theories of capitalist accumulation and dispossession, and a critiqu…
Compte rendu de At Home and in the Field
This is the kind of book you want to read both before and after you go to the field. Part 1, Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork, introduces the reader to some of the obstacles fieldworkers may confront, such as physical danger, gaining local permission to conduct research and the foibles and sometimes funny predicaments experienced by all fieldworkers, whether they admit it or not. We chuckle at Alexander Mawyer’s being perce…
Inequality and Changing Masculinities Among the Gende in Papua New Guinea
This article examines Gende socio-economic history from before 1932 to the present, a history marked by extreme inequality and challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity. Centuries ago, the Gende lived in New Guinea’s interior. Forced from their lands by tribal warfare, they escaped to the less populated northern Bismarck mountains (in what is now Madang Province) and re-established themselves, marrying Chimbu and Ramu neighbours and favou…
My Gun, My Brother
Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel
Zimmer-Tamakoshi Laura. Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel: Letters from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 103, 1996-2. pp. 163-171
Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific, Ethnology, Vol. 34, No. 2, Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands: Part I (Spring, 1995), pp. 113-127
Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific, Ethnology, Vol. 34, No. 2, Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands: Part I (Spring, 1995), pp. 113-127
Inequality and Changing Masculinities Among the Gende in Papua New Guinea
This article examines Gende socio-economic history from before 1932 to the present, a history marked by extreme inequality and challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity. Centuries ago, the Gende lived in New Guinea’s interior. Forced from their lands by tribal warfare, they escaped to the less populated northern Bismarck mountains (in what is now Madang Province) and re-established themselves, marrying Chimbu and Ramu neighbours and favou…
Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel
Zimmer-Tamakoshi Laura. Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel: Letters from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 103, 1996-2. pp. 163-171
Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Passion, Poetry, and Cultural Politics in the South Pacific, Ethnology, Vol. 34, No. 2, Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands: Part I (Spring, 1995), pp. 113-127
Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel
Zimmer-Tamakoshi Laura. Patterns of Culture in the tower of Babel: Letters from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 103, 1996-2. pp. 163-171
My Gun, My Brother
Compte rendu de At Home and in the Field
This is the kind of book you want to read both before and after you go to the field. Part 1, Real Encounters: Predicaments of Ethnographic Fieldwork, introduces the reader to some of the obstacles fieldworkers may confront, such as physical danger, gaining local permission to conduct research and the foibles and sometimes funny predicaments experienced by all fieldworkers, whether they admit it or not. We chuckle at Alexander Mawyer’s being perce…
Inequality and Changing Masculinities Among the Gende in Papua New Guinea
This article examines Gende socio-economic history from before 1932 to the present, a history marked by extreme inequality and challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity. Centuries ago, the Gende lived in New Guinea’s interior. Forced from their lands by tribal warfare, they escaped to the less populated northern Bismarck mountains (in what is now Madang Province) and re-established themselves, marrying Chimbu and Ramu neighbours and favou…
Dispossession and the Environment
Reviewed by: Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea by Paige West Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (retired) Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea. By Paige West. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. This little book is intensely disturbing. West starts off introducing readers to Papua New Guinea (PNG), theories of capitalist accumulation and dispossession, and a critiqu…
First Fieldwork
First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960 – 1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific island countries and societies and in anthropology itself. Answering some of the same how and why questions found in Terence E. Hays’ Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (1993), First Fieldwork begins w…
History (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Law (4 works) · New guinea (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works)