Nancy Mcdowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Mcdowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdowell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reassessing Revitalization Movements
Bodies and Persons
A Brief Comment on Difference and Rationality
Mangrove Man
This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existent…
Hard Times on Kairiru Island
The Empty Place
The Mundugumor
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Stealing People's Names
The Mundugumor
American Ethnological Society
Self and Other in Papua New Guinea
Kenneth E. Read. Return to the High Valley: Coming Full Circle . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. xxi. 269 pp. $18.95 (cloth
Applied Anthropology
Cultural/Ethnology
It's Not Who You Are but How You Give That Counts
Exchange, rather than descent, can be seen as the primary organizing principle in Melanesian societies. The means by which exchange functions to organize cultural concepts, social relationships, and individual experience is illustrated by reference to the society of Bun in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Here, exchange is central to the way in which the people conceptualize themselves and conceptualize being human, as well as to the …
The Oceanic Ethnography of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead did fieldwork in seven Oceanic societies: Samoa, Manus, Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Bali, and Iatmul. Several major concerns that characterize all of her ethnographic work are examined: her conviction that data must be useful; her experimentation with, and desire to improve, methods of ethnographic reportage; her focus on process and system; the importance of comparison; and the interplay between data and theory. Brief descripti…
The Significance of Cultural Context
An analysis of two food taboos from the village of Bun in Papua New Guinea is provided to illustrate two main contentions: (1) that food taboos cannot be analyzed in a context divorced from the cultural meaning of food itself; and (2) that food taboos in at least this society are not best analyzed as a unitary system
Flexibility of Sister Exchange in Bun1
Toward a Symbolic Approach to Exchange in Melanesia
Brenda Johnson Clay. Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xviii + 173 pp. $14.00. Edward L. Schieffelin. The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. vi + 243 pp. $12.95, cloth. $4.95, paper
The Struggle to Be Human
The Meaning of "Rope" in a Yuat River Village
Kinship and Exchange
Mangrove Man
This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existent…
The Mundugumor
It's Not Who You Are but How You Give That Counts
Exchange, rather than descent, can be seen as the primary organizing principle in Melanesian societies. The means by which exchange functions to organize cultural concepts, social relationships, and individual experience is illustrated by reference to the society of Bun in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Here, exchange is central to the way in which the people conceptualize themselves and conceptualize being human, as well as to the …
Reassessing Revitalization Movements
The Oceanic Ethnography of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead did fieldwork in seven Oceanic societies: Samoa, Manus, Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Bali, and Iatmul. Several major concerns that characterize all of her ethnographic work are examined: her conviction that data must be useful; her experimentation with, and desire to improve, methods of ethnographic reportage; her focus on process and system; the importance of comparison; and the interplay between data and theory. Brief descripti…
The Meaning of "Rope" in a Yuat River Village
Bodies and Persons
A Brief Comment on Difference and Rationality
The Struggle to Be Human
Kinship and Exchange
The Meaning of "Rope" in a Yuat River Village
Flexibility of Sister Exchange in Bun1
Toward a Symbolic Approach to Exchange in Melanesia
Brenda Johnson Clay. Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xviii + 173 pp. $14.00. Edward L. Schieffelin. The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. vi + 243 pp. $12.95, cloth. $4.95, paper
The Struggle to Be Human
The Significance of Cultural Context
An analysis of two food taboos from the village of Bun in Papua New Guinea is provided to illustrate two main contentions: (1) that food taboos cannot be analyzed in a context divorced from the cultural meaning of food itself; and (2) that food taboos in at least this society are not best analyzed as a unitary system
It's Not Who You Are but How You Give That Counts
Exchange, rather than descent, can be seen as the primary organizing principle in Melanesian societies. The means by which exchange functions to organize cultural concepts, social relationships, and individual experience is illustrated by reference to the society of Bun in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Here, exchange is central to the way in which the people conceptualize themselves and conceptualize being human, as well as to the …
The Oceanic Ethnography of Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead did fieldwork in seven Oceanic societies: Samoa, Manus, Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Bali, and Iatmul. Several major concerns that characterize all of her ethnographic work are examined: her conviction that data must be useful; her experimentation with, and desire to improve, methods of ethnographic reportage; her focus on process and system; the importance of comparison; and the interplay between data and theory. Brief descripti…
Cultural/Ethnology
Applied Anthropology
Self and Other in Papua New Guinea
Kenneth E. Read. Return to the High Valley: Coming Full Circle . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. xxi. 269 pp. $18.95 (cloth
American Ethnological Society
Stealing People's Names
The Mundugumor
The Empty Place
The Mundugumor
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Hard Times on Kairiru Island
Mangrove Man
This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existent…
Bodies and Persons
A Brief Comment on Difference and Rationality
Reassessing Revitalization Movements
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