Mac Marshall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 589641 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mac Marshall |
| SOBRENOME | Mac Marshall |
| ASSINATURA | MAC MARSHALL |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Iowa |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
American Anthropology in Micronesia
Margery Wolf
Making sense of Micronesia
Carolina in the Carolines
Tobacco use---especially smoking industrially manufactured cigarettes---kills nearly 5 million people annually and is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Tobacco is a widely used global commodity embedded in cultural meanings, and its consumption involves a set of learned, patterned social behaviors. Seemingly, then, tobacco offers a most appealing anthropological research topic, yet its study has been relatively ignored by medical …
AnthroSource Update
Healing the Body, Healing the Spirit, Healing the Community
MAQ Transition
Pouring Beer on Troubled Waters
Cultural constructions of the meanings of violence and control among Papua New Guinea (PNG) Highlanders provide a lens through which to view the resurgence of tribal fighting that occurred there during the decade of the 1980s. Frequent government liquor bans, promulgated on the conventional wisdom that alcohol use causes violence, failed to stem the violence. Through an examination of nearly 500 PNG newspaper items we illustrate how Papua New Gui…
Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millennium
American Anthropology in Micronesia
This text evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the US colonial administration and the discipline of anthropology itself. It analyzes the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examines the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of sociocultural anthr…
An MAQ Innovation
American Anthropology in Micronesia
(Re)Positioning MAQ to and through the Millennium
Representations of Anthropology and History in Oceania
Nicholas Thomas In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xvi. 269 pp
Madder than Hell
We explore the secular ritual process that Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) has produced to aid Americans who have had a loved one killed or maimed by a drunk driver. Our particular focus is on how MADD's victim services filled a cultural void and provided a means for people to manage and channel their grief and rage in psychologically healthy and socially constructive ways. The analysis is enriched by comparative ethnographic material on how…
Problematizing Impairment
This article examines Western concept of impairment by reference to ideas Micronesian (Caroline Island) atoll dwellers hold about personhood,(2) and contributes to growing anthropological attention to disability and related notions of handicap and impairment (e.g., Bruun and Ingstad 1990; Ingstad and Whyte 1995; Jenkins 1993; Susman 1994). Specifically, I suggest distinguishing between impaired parts and impaired persons. Influenced by such thing…
The Once and Future KinshipTechnologies of Procreation
Engaging History
Book reviewed in this article: The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll . Lin Poyer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 298 pp. Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813 . Edwin N. Ferdon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 184 pp
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
The wizard from Oz meets the wicked witch of the East
In recent years considerable attention has been paid to various anthropological writing styles, to the ways anthropologists construct their written accounts (texts), and to the bases of ethnographic authority. Derek Freeman's 1983 critique of Margaret Mead's Samoan writings provides a well-known and highly publicized case with which to explore the issues of anthropological writing and text construction. I examine the choice of words in Margaret M…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Culture, Kin, and Cognition in Oceania
The second fatal impact
The Pacific Theater
I. Introduction -- War stories / Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White -- II. Island selves and wartime others -- Histories of contact, narratives of the self : Wartime encounters in Santa Isabel / Geoffrey M. White -- The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Echoes of massacre : Recollections of World War II on Sapwuahfik (Ngatik Atoll) / Lin Poyer -- Time of famine, time of transformation : Hell in the Pa…
Alcohol and Ethnography
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
The Nature of Nurture
The problem of what is to be included in "the nature of kinship" is examined by focusing on kinship and friendship in Truk District, Caroline Islands, Micronesia. A cultural model of "intensive interpersonal relationships" is presented showing how natural kinship, created kinship, and friendship conceptually interlock for Trukese. It is concluded that the essence of kinship as a general cross-cultural construct is sharing and that cross-cultural …
Siblingship in Oceania
This volume presents a detailed anthropological investigation of sibling relationships in Polynesian, Micronesian, Melanesian and Malay societies from a comparative and regional perspective
The Prehistory of Oceania [and Comments and Reply]
The prehistory of Oceania is best approached through the cooperation of a number of disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, and ethnobotany, to name perhaps the major five. As a result of intensified cooperation over the past decade, it is now possible to write a prehistory of Oceania with which other scholars might agree at least in general terms. This paper is such an attempt, and refers particularly t…
Through a Glass Darkly
Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millennium
The culture of public problems
Structural Patterns of Sibling Classification in Island Oceania
The underlying structure of discriminations in the classification of siblings has received considerable attention. Prior research has demonstrated the tendency of patterns of sibling classification to persist, often for thousands of years, in groups of societies that speak related languages. In this paper it is shown that a sample of 223 societies from Island Oceania exhibits 11 structural types of sibling classification linked in a developmental…
Carolina in the Carolines
Tobacco use---especially smoking industrially manufactured cigarettes---kills nearly 5 million people annually and is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Tobacco is a widely used global commodity embedded in cultural meanings, and its consumption involves a set of learned, patterned social behaviors. Seemingly, then, tobacco offers a most appealing anthropological research topic, yet its study has been relatively ignored by medical …
The wizard from Oz meets the wicked witch of the East
In recent years considerable attention has been paid to various anthropological writing styles, to the ways anthropologists construct their written accounts (texts), and to the bases of ethnographic authority. Derek Freeman's 1983 critique of Margaret Mead's Samoan writings provides a well-known and highly publicized case with which to explore the issues of anthropological writing and text construction. I examine the choice of words in Margaret M…
The second fatal impact
Natural and Unnatural Disaster in the Mortlock Islands of Micronesia
The Jigalong Mob
Problematizing Impairment
This article examines Western concept of impairment by reference to ideas Micronesian (Caroline Island) atoll dwellers hold about personhood,(2) and contributes to growing anthropological attention to disability and related notions of handicap and impairment (e.g., Bruun and Ingstad 1990; Ingstad and Whyte 1995; Jenkins 1993; Susman 1994). Specifically, I suggest distinguishing between impaired parts and impaired persons. Influenced by such thing…
Holy and unholy spirits
Pouring Beer on Troubled Waters
Cultural constructions of the meanings of violence and control among Papua New Guinea (PNG) Highlanders provide a lens through which to view the resurgence of tribal fighting that occurred there during the decade of the 1980s. Frequent government liquor bans, promulgated on the conventional wisdom that alcohol use causes violence, failed to stem the violence. Through an examination of nearly 500 PNG newspaper items we illustrate how Papua New Gui…
Culture, Kin and Cognition in Oceania
(Re)Positioning MAQ to and through the Millennium
Representations of Anthropology and History in Oceania
Nicholas Thomas In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xvi. 269 pp
Engaging History
Book reviewed in this article: The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll . Lin Poyer. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 298 pp. Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813 . Edwin N. Ferdon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. 184 pp
The Pacific Theater
I. Introduction -- War stories / Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White -- II. Island selves and wartime others -- Histories of contact, narratives of the self : Wartime encounters in Santa Isabel / Geoffrey M. White -- The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Echoes of massacre : Recollections of World War II on Sapwuahfik (Ngatik Atoll) / Lin Poyer -- Time of famine, time of transformation : Hell in the Pa…
John (Jack) Fischer (1923-1985)
Consensus, Dissensus, and Guttman Scales
Separate Guttman scales are developed for each of 109 respondents to a political attitude questionnaire on Namoluk Atoll, Micronesia. These scales are compared to examine the amount of agreement or disagreement among informants concerning the rank order of "difficulty" of the eight political offices that comprise local government. A master scale that sorts individuals into groups on the basis of offices they "pass" is created and the scale types …
Consensus, Dissensus, and Guttman Scales
Separate Guttman scales are developed for each of 109 respondents to a political attitude questionnaire on Namoluk Atoll, Micronesia. These scales are compared to examine the amount of agreement or disagreement among informants concerning the rank order of "difficulty" of the eight political offices that comprise local government. A master scale that sorts individuals into groups on the basis of offices they "pass" is created and the scale types …
The Jigalong Mob
Micronesia
The Prehistory of Oceania [and Comments and Reply]
The prehistory of Oceania is best approached through the cooperation of a number of disciplines, including archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, and ethnobotany, to name perhaps the major five. As a result of intensified cooperation over the past decade, it is now possible to write a prehistory of Oceania with which other scholars might agree at least in general terms. This paper is such an attempt, and refers particularly t…
Holy and unholy spirits
Ethnology
The Nature of Nurture
The problem of what is to be included in "the nature of kinship" is examined by focusing on kinship and friendship in Truk District, Caroline Islands, Micronesia. A cultural model of "intensive interpersonal relationships" is presented showing how natural kinship, created kinship, and friendship conceptually interlock for Trukese. It is concluded that the essence of kinship as a general cross-cultural construct is sharing and that cross-cultural …
Breasts, bottles and babies
The mothers of 375 children born in a Micronesian village during the past 50 years were interviewed about their infant feeding practices. It was found that in the period 1945–1975, use of commercial formula increased steadily, breastfeeding declined, age at weaning from breast decreased, and consumption of milk by one to two year olds increased. These trends accelerated in the 1970s. The use of powdered or evaporated milk for infant feeding was i…
Ethnology
Natural and Unnatural Disaster in the Mortlock Islands of Micronesia
Infant feeding and infant illness in a Micronesian village
Some sober reflections on Miller's temperate note on ‘holy and unholy spirits’
Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry
Weekend Warriors
Culture, Language, and Society . Ward H. Goodenough
The culture of public problems
Siblingship in Oceania
This volume presents a detailed anthropological investigation of sibling relationships in Polynesian, Micronesian, Melanesian and Malay societies from a comparative and regional perspective
Cultural
General/Theoretical
Structural Patterns of Sibling Classification in Island Oceania
The underlying structure of discriminations in the classification of siblings has received considerable attention. Prior research has demonstrated the tendency of patterns of sibling classification to persist, often for thousands of years, in groups of societies that speak related languages. In this paper it is shown that a sample of 223 societies from Island Oceania exhibits 11 structural types of sibling classification linked in a developmental…
Alcohol and Ethnography
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Through a Glass Darkly
A Reply to Keesing
The First Taint of Civilization
Social/Cultural Anthropology
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