Grant Mccall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Mccall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccall |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Material conditions and human freedom: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory
This book examines the origin and development of the private property rights system from prehistory to the present day to debunk three widely accepted false beliefs about the private property system: that inequality is natural, inevitable, or incompatible with freedom; that capitalism is more consistent with negative freedom than any other conceivable economic system; and that there is something “natural” about the private property system. That i…
The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory
Examines the origin and development of the private property rights system from prehistory to the present day Traces the origin and development of the private property rights system from prehistory to the present day showing that it was not the product of 'appropriation' and 'voluntary trade' but of a long history of violent aggression Reviews the long history of contradictory explanations why inequality is supposedly natural and inevitable or an …
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
This book shows how—despite significant equivocation—the most influential justifications of government and of private property rely on the seldom-questioned empirical premise that this book calls, “the Hobbesian Hypothesis.” That is, everyone in a society with a government and/or a private property rights system is better off than anyone could be in a society without those institutions. In other words, the “Lockean Proviso” is fulfilled—whether b…
Myths about the State of Nature and the Reality of Stateless Societies
This article argues the following points. The Hobbesian hypothesis, which we define as the claim that all people are better off under state authority than they would be outside of it, is an empirical claim about all stateless societies. It is an essential premise in most contractarian justifications of government sovereignty. Many small- scale societies are stateless. Anthropological evidence from them provides sufficient reason to doubt the trut…
Mystery islands. Discovering the ancient Pacific, by Tom Koppel
The Institute of Pacific Studies (IPS) at The University of the South Pacific (USP) was known for many things. It was where Islanders with insufficient secondary school education in their own count
In Memory of George H. Odell
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film) Directed by Werner Herzog
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film) Directed by Werner Herzog." Lithic Technology, 37(1), pp. 61–62
Exploring Easter Island: Review article
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory: Idiosyncratic Engraving Variation and the Neolithic Slate Plaques of the Iberian Peninsula
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
Kinship and Environment on Easter Island: Some Observations and Speculations
Handaxe-Hurling Hominids: An Unlikely Story
Commentary
The Pacific: Rapanui - our own place
Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands
The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Illuminating the empowering aspects of rituals involved in feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gift giving, Carucci offers a wealth of insights into a celebration the Enewetak people have made uniquely their own
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The XVIIth Pacific Science Association Congress met in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 27, to June 1, 1991, with an attendance in excess of 1,500, most of whom presented papers. Honolulu, Geneva of the Pacific Century (as locals are calling it), is able to attract a large number of visitors, easily and relatively cheaply, in addition to the considerable resident talent con? ducting research in the Pacific. There were many well-balanced programs, bringi…
Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology
Association and Power in Reciprocity and Requital: More on Mauss and the Maori1
Four worlds of experience and action
Paradise Postponed: Essays on Research and Development in the South Pacific
The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island
Obituary
Studying Voluntary Associations as Adaptive Mechanisms: A Review of Anthropological Perspectives [and Comments and Reply]
In this paper an attempt is made to review selected anthropological studies of voluntary associations, in particular, and common-interest associations, in general. The aim is to show how these groups have been studied as adaptive mechanisms in situations of social, cultural, and technological change, especially in those types of change involving rapid urban growth and large-scale migrations of rural populations to towns and cities. The review is …
European impact on Easter Island: Response, recruitment and the Polynesian experience in Peru
Handaxe-Hurling Hominids: An Unlikely Story
Image of Limited Good, or Expectation of Reciprocity? [and Comments and Reply]
Foster's limited-good model has been both widely accepted and roundly criticized. Upon superficial examination, certain behavior patterns among the Mopan Maya of southern Belize seem to reflect the presence of a limited-good cognition. With closer scrutiny, however, much contrary evidence emerges, and the behavior patterns in question appear, instead, to stem from what is tentatively termed the expectation of circumstantially balanced reciprocity…
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory: Idiosyncratic Engraving Variation and the Neolithic Slate Plaques of the Iberian Peninsula
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
More Thoughts on the Ik and Anthropology [and Reply]
Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands
The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Illuminating the empowering aspects of rituals involved in feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gift giving, Carucci offers a wealth of insights into a celebration the Enewetak people have made uniquely their own
European impact on Easter Island: Response, recruitment and the Polynesian experience in Peru
Myths about the State of Nature and the Reality of Stateless Societies
This article argues the following points. The Hobbesian hypothesis, which we define as the claim that all people are better off under state authority than they would be outside of it, is an empirical claim about all stateless societies. It is an essential premise in most contractarian justifications of government sovereignty. Many small- scale societies are stateless. Anthropological evidence from them provides sufficient reason to doubt the trut…
Paradise Postponed: Essays on Research and Development in the South Pacific
Material conditions and human freedom: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
In Memory of George H. Odell
Kinship and Environment on Easter Island: Some Observations and Speculations
Four worlds of experience and action
The Txistulari in Basque Culture1
American Anthropological Interest and Prospects in Basque Studies
On Hultkrantz and His Critics
Scandinavia's Nefa
Image of Limited Good, or Expectation of Reciprocity? [and Comments and Reply]
Foster's limited-good model has been both widely accepted and roundly criticized. Upon superficial examination, certain behavior patterns among the Mopan Maya of southern Belize seem to reflect the presence of a limited-good cognition. With closer scrutiny, however, much contrary evidence emerges, and the behavior patterns in question appear, instead, to stem from what is tentatively termed the expectation of circumstantially balanced reciprocity…
More Thoughts on the Ik and Anthropology [and Reply]
Studying Voluntary Associations as Adaptive Mechanisms: A Review of Anthropological Perspectives [and Comments and Reply]
In this paper an attempt is made to review selected anthropological studies of voluntary associations, in particular, and common-interest associations, in general. The aim is to show how these groups have been studied as adaptive mechanisms in situations of social, cultural, and technological change, especially in those types of change involving rapid urban growth and large-scale migrations of rural populations to towns and cities. The review is …
European impact on Easter Island: Response, recruitment and the Polynesian experience in Peru
The Eighth Land: The Polynesian Discovery and Settlement of Easter Island
Obituary
Four worlds of experience and action
Paradise Postponed: Essays on Research and Development in the South Pacific
Association and Power in Reciprocity and Requital: More on Mauss and the Maori1
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The Future of Migration in the Pacific and Asia
The XVIIth Pacific Science Association Congress met in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 27, to June 1, 1991, with an attendance in excess of 1,500, most of whom presented papers. Honolulu, Geneva of the Pacific Century (as locals are calling it), is able to attract a large number of visitors, easily and relatively cheaply, in addition to the considerable resident talent con? ducting research in the Pacific. There were many well-balanced programs, bringi…
Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology
Nuclear Nativity: Rituals of Renewal and Empowerment in the Marshall Islands
The leading authority on the lifeways of the Enewetak people explores the rituals, customs, and meanings of the Kurijmoj festival. Illuminating the empowering aspects of rituals involved in feasts, competitive games, speeches, dances, songs of apocalypse, and gift giving, Carucci offers a wealth of insights into a celebration the Enewetak people have made uniquely their own
Commentary
The Pacific: Rapanui - our own place
Handaxe-Hurling Hominids: An Unlikely Story
Revisiting the Individual in Prehistory: Idiosyncratic Engraving Variation and the Neolithic Slate Plaques of the Iberian Peninsula
Experiments in replicating facsimiles of Late Neolithic engraved slate plaques from southwestern Iberia suggest that variation related to fine-motor skills is greater between individual engravers than within the work of a single engraver. This implies that the work of different individuals producing certain classes of material culture may be distinguishable on the basis of repetitive, idiosyncratic traits. These studies also generate otherwise un…
Kinship and Environment on Easter Island: Some Observations and Speculations
Exploring Easter Island: Review article
In Memory of George H. Odell
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film) Directed by Werner Herzog
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film) Directed by Werner Herzog." Lithic Technology, 37(1), pp. 61–62
History (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · History (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Library science (8 works)