George D Westermark
Biographic Data
| ID | 85296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George D Westermark |
| GIVEN NAMES | George D |
| FAMILY NAME | Westermark |
| SIGNATURE | WESTERMARK G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Bibliography of North American Anthropological Doctoral Theses on New Guinea
Readingsouth pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal
2001). Reading south pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal. History and Anthropology: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-178
Clan Claims: Land, Law and Violence in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands1
Land has become the source of new end more complex disputes in Papua New Guinea in recent years. Economic opportunities associated with government programs and multinational corporations have altered land values in rural districts. This paper examines how in the context of such shifting attitudes toward land, competing groups in an Eastern Highlands district use both law and violence in their confrontations. One component of the legal strategies …
When the Alternative Fails
What happens when a popular justice program fails? Academic discussions of alternative dispute resolution have frequently questioned the likelihood that popular justice programs will be accepted by their publics in either advanced industrial or Third World nations (Abel 1982, Hayden 1990, Merry 1993). In this paper, however, I examine an instance in which a popular justice program had been positively received for a decade, but where, because of a…
The New Guinea Highlands: Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set? [and Comments and Reply]
Social Courts in Theory and Practice: Yugoslav Workers' Courts in Comparative Perspective. Robert M. Hayden
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Two Laws: Managing Disputes in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community. Nancy M. Williams
Court Is an Arrow: Legal Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
L'approche interactionnelle d'un tribunal villageois (Agarabi, District de Kainantu) et la comparaison avec d'autres tribunaux prouve qu'il existe une grande diversite de modeles juridiques en raison de l'utilisation conjointe des lois coutumieres locales et nationales
Political Anthropology: An Introduction
Ol I Skulim Mipela: Contemporary Warfare in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands
Anthropological research has made significant contributions to our general understanding of how warfare has affected human societies. Careful ethnographic accounts of intergroup violence from a number of culture areas have been used to develop ecological and social-structural theories of war (e.g., Vayda 1976; Koch 1974). Most anthropological research, however, has focused on the effects of warfare in tribal societies, with far less attention dev…
The New Guinea Highlands: Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set? [and Comments and Reply]
Court Is an Arrow: Legal Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
L'approche interactionnelle d'un tribunal villageois (Agarabi, District de Kainantu) et la comparaison avec d'autres tribunaux prouve qu'il existe une grande diversite de modeles juridiques en raison de l'utilisation conjointe des lois coutumieres locales et nationales
Ol I Skulim Mipela: Contemporary Warfare in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands
Anthropological research has made significant contributions to our general understanding of how warfare has affected human societies. Careful ethnographic accounts of intergroup violence from a number of culture areas have been used to develop ecological and social-structural theories of war (e.g., Vayda 1976; Koch 1974). Most anthropological research, however, has focused on the effects of warfare in tribal societies, with far less attention dev…
Readingsouth pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal
2001). Reading south pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal. History and Anthropology: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-178
Ol I Skulim Mipela: Contemporary Warfare in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands
Anthropological research has made significant contributions to our general understanding of how warfare has affected human societies. Careful ethnographic accounts of intergroup violence from a number of culture areas have been used to develop ecological and social-structural theories of war (e.g., Vayda 1976; Koch 1974). Most anthropological research, however, has focused on the effects of warfare in tribal societies, with far less attention dev…
Political Anthropology: An Introduction
Court Is an Arrow: Legal Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
L'approche interactionnelle d'un tribunal villageois (Agarabi, District de Kainantu) et la comparaison avec d'autres tribunaux prouve qu'il existe une grande diversite de modeles juridiques en raison de l'utilisation conjointe des lois coutumieres locales et nationales
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Two Laws: Managing Disputes in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community. Nancy M. Williams
Social Courts in Theory and Practice: Yugoslav Workers' Courts in Comparative Perspective. Robert M. Hayden
The New Guinea Highlands: Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set? [and Comments and Reply]
When the Alternative Fails
What happens when a popular justice program fails? Academic discussions of alternative dispute resolution have frequently questioned the likelihood that popular justice programs will be accepted by their publics in either advanced industrial or Third World nations (Abel 1982, Hayden 1990, Merry 1993). In this paper, however, I examine an instance in which a popular justice program had been positively received for a decade, but where, because of a…
Clan Claims: Land, Law and Violence in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands1
Land has become the source of new end more complex disputes in Papua New Guinea in recent years. Economic opportunities associated with government programs and multinational corporations have altered land values in rural districts. This paper examines how in the context of such shifting attitudes toward land, competing groups in an Eastern Highlands district use both law and violence in their confrontations. One component of the legal strategies …
Readingsouth pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal
2001). Reading south pacific: Colonialism and anthropology in an Australian journal. History and Anthropology: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-178
A Bibliography of North American Anthropological Doctoral Theses on New Guinea
Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · New guinea (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)