Mary Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6907-8111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Agency, kinship, and history in North Ambrym
Introduction: Reclaiming Paradigms Lost
This introduction is a critical response to claims made about the demise and revival of the sub‐discipline of kinship studies. Contemporary calls to a reclaimed and revitalised area rest, ironically, on a misplaced concentration on the preoccupations of dominant cultures, one of the grounds used to discard kinship in the past. It is argued that many of the issues debated up to the 1970s in the domain of kinship involve more general problems such …
Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross‐cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions
Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and ‘cultural’ explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the …
Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross-cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions
Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and ‘cultural’ explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the …
Introduction: Reclaiming Paradigms Lost
Moving Histories: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Place in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
Recent writing on the ethnogeography of Vanuatu has identified mobility and primordial connection as two counterpoised aspects of connection to place that have a long history in the archipelago. These themes are taken up in this paper in the specific case of north Ambrym, an island community in north‐central Vanuatu in which the accidental geography of active volcanoes has fostered an equally active interest in making connections outside the isla…
Leading Lights in the ‘Mother of Darkness’: Perspectives on Leadership and Value in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
In comparative political theory in Anthropology, Pacific leadership has had a prominent place, with a long history of debate about typologies and forms. In this paper I eschew such approaches in favour of a demonstration of the complexity of interactions fostered in local communities by interpretations of a protean ‘tradition’, refracted by a history of encounters with modernity and its social imaginary at a particular historical moment. The narr…
Breaking the stones: Ritual, gender and modernity in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind
Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia: An Ethnographic Survey
Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia
Effects of Saturated and Unsaturated Fats on Learning, Emotionality, and Reaction to Stress
Dietary fat was manipulated in a pilot study to assess its effects on emotionality, operant conditioning, and escape conditioning in 30 male rats. Low-fat Ss learned best in the Skinner box. Those maintained on high saturated fat showed somewhat more emotionality but performed better in the water maze. There was some indication that restriction of dietary fat did not interfere with routine learning, but it did retard learning under stressful cond…
Breaking the stones: Ritual, gender and modernity in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
Agency, kinship, and history in North Ambrym
Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross-cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions
Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and ‘cultural’ explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the …
Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind
Effects of Saturated and Unsaturated Fats on Learning, Emotionality, and Reaction to Stress
Dietary fat was manipulated in a pilot study to assess its effects on emotionality, operant conditioning, and escape conditioning in 30 male rats. Low-fat Ss learned best in the Skinner box. Those maintained on high saturated fat showed somewhat more emotionality but performed better in the water maze. There was some indication that restriction of dietary fat did not interfere with routine learning, but it did retard learning under stressful cond…
Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia
Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia: An Ethnographic Survey
Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind
Breaking the stones: Ritual, gender and modernity in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
Moving Histories: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Place in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
Recent writing on the ethnogeography of Vanuatu has identified mobility and primordial connection as two counterpoised aspects of connection to place that have a long history in the archipelago. These themes are taken up in this paper in the specific case of north Ambrym, an island community in north‐central Vanuatu in which the accidental geography of active volcanoes has fostered an equally active interest in making connections outside the isla…
Leading Lights in the ‘Mother of Darkness’: Perspectives on Leadership and Value in North Ambrym, Vanuatu
In comparative political theory in Anthropology, Pacific leadership has had a prominent place, with a long history of debate about typologies and forms. In this paper I eschew such approaches in favour of a demonstration of the complexity of interactions fostered in local communities by interpretations of a protean ‘tradition’, refracted by a history of encounters with modernity and its social imaginary at a particular historical moment. The narr…
Introduction: Reclaiming Paradigms Lost
This introduction is a critical response to claims made about the demise and revival of the sub‐discipline of kinship studies. Contemporary calls to a reclaimed and revitalised area rest, ironically, on a misplaced concentration on the preoccupations of dominant cultures, one of the grounds used to discard kinship in the past. It is argued that many of the issues debated up to the 1970s in the domain of kinship involve more general problems such …
Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross‐cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions
Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and ‘cultural’ explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the …
Coming too Close, Going too Far: Theoretical and Cross-cultural Approaches to Incest and its Prohibitions
Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, other paradigms provided a renewed interest in some older theories about the prohibition of incest. The approach presented in this paper gives due critical consideration to both evolutionary and ‘cultural’ explanations of incest and its prohibition suggesting their mutual involvement, but the …
Introduction: Reclaiming Paradigms Lost
Agency, kinship, and history in North Ambrym
History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Kinship (4 works) · Citation (3 works)