Laura Zimmer‐tamakoshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 87313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Zimmer‐tamakoshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmer‐tamakoshi |
| SIGNATURE | TAMAKOSHI L Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Truman State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
‘Our Good Work’ or ‘the Devil's Work'? Inequality, Exchange, and Card Playing among the G ende
This paper looks at Gende card playing and its responsiveness to a varied history of economic downturns and upswings, along with its multifaceted and creative uses. Card gambling has a role as a parallel exchange system that continues to help the G ende sustain their community by providing a means for less wealthy players to increase their incomes, and acting as a platform for prospect‐poor bachelors to display their self‐control and mastery in c…
Jane Carter Goodale (1926-2008)
My Gun, My Brother
The Last Big Man
Big Men achieve that status by making good things happen for others as well as for themselves. In the minds of many Papua New Guineans development promises a direct route to becoming Super Big Men and Women. Mostly, however, it produces inequality and conflict. This is striking in places peripheral to major developments and in situations where not everyone benefits (e.g. compensation to ‘local landowners' ‐ narrowly defined by mining companies ‐ …
When land has a price
(1997). When land has a price: Ancestral gerrymandering and the resolution of land conflicts at Kurumbukare. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 649-666
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
The Last Big Man
Big Men achieve that status by making good things happen for others as well as for themselves. In the minds of many Papua New Guineans development promises a direct route to becoming Super Big Men and Women. Mostly, however, it produces inequality and conflict. This is striking in places peripheral to major developments and in situations where not everyone benefits (e.g. compensation to ‘local landowners' ‐ narrowly defined by mining companies ‐ …
When land has a price
(1997). When land has a price: Ancestral gerrymandering and the resolution of land conflicts at Kurumbukare. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 649-666
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…
Jane Carter Goodale (1926-2008)
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
The Last Big Man
Big Men achieve that status by making good things happen for others as well as for themselves. In the minds of many Papua New Guineans development promises a direct route to becoming Super Big Men and Women. Mostly, however, it produces inequality and conflict. This is striking in places peripheral to major developments and in situations where not everyone benefits (e.g. compensation to ‘local landowners' ‐ narrowly defined by mining companies ‐ …
When land has a price
(1997). When land has a price: Ancestral gerrymandering and the resolution of land conflicts at Kurumbukare. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 649-666
My Gun, My Brother
Jane Carter Goodale (1926-2008)
‘Our Good Work’ or ‘the Devil's Work'? Inequality, Exchange, and Card Playing among the G ende
This paper looks at Gende card playing and its responsiveness to a varied history of economic downturns and upswings, along with its multifaceted and creative uses. Card gambling has a role as a parallel exchange system that continues to help the G ende sustain their community by providing a means for less wealthy players to increase their incomes, and acting as a platform for prospect‐poor bachelors to display their self‐control and mastery in c…
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…
History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · New guinea (6 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works)