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Social Complexity in the Making

A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea

By: Donald Tuzin

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Social Complexity in the Making

A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea

By: Donald Tuzin

Social Complexity in the Making is a highly accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in the interior Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea. This village, unlike others in the region, expanded at an uncharacteristically fast rate more than a century ago and has maintained its large size (more than 1500) and importance until the present day. The fascinating story of how Ilahita became this size and how organizational innovations evolved there to absorb internal pressures for disintegration, bears on a question debated ever since Plato raised it: what does it take for people to live together in harmony? Anthropologist David Tuzin, drawing on more than two years fieldwork in the village, studies the reasons behind this unusual population growth. He discovers the behaviour and policies of the Tambaran, the all-male society which was the back bone of Ilahitan society, and examines the effect of the outside influences such as World War II on the village. This work is a unique example of an anthropological case study which will be widely used amongst undergraduates and academics. It provides an excellent insight into techniques of ethnography and contributes to a deeper understanding of what makes a society evolve (and/or collapse).

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Routledge

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1134584539

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The Ilahita Arapesh

Dimensions of Unity

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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The Ilahita Arapesh

Dimensions of Unity

By: Donald F. Tuzin

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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0520332830

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The Voice of The Tambaran

Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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The Voice of The Tambaran

Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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0520308107

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The Cassowary's Revenge

The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

By: Donald Tuzin

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The Cassowary's Revenge

The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

By: Donald Tuzin

Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, and the villagers believed that Tuzin’s return "from the dead" signified a further need to destroy masculine traditions. The Cassowary's Revenge is an intimate account of how Ilahita’s men and women think, emote, dream, and explain themselves. Tuzin also explores how the death of masculinity in a remote society raises disturbing implications for gender relations in our own society. In this light Tuzin's book is about men and women in search of how to value one another, and in today's world there is no theme more universal or timely.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226819515

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Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness

By: Donald E. Brown

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Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

The Social Origins of Historical Consciousness

By: Donald E. Brown

Here is a book that I can strongly recommend for a variety of reasons. It is well written, it is scholarly, but its greatest appeal lies in the posing of an important question and in the offering of a satisfying (to this reviewer, at least) answer."ÑJournal of Historical Geography "This is an intriguing and stimulating study of historical differences in the indigenous historiography of parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe."ÑAmerican Anthropologist.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816510601

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The Voice of The Tambaran

Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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The Voice of The Tambaran

Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh Religion

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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The Ilahita Arapesh

Dimensions of Unity

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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Dimensions of Unity

By: Donald F. Tuzin

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The Cassowary's Revenge

The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

By: Donald Tuzin

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The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

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Child of Change

By: Garri Kimovich Kasparov,Donald Trelford

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Child of Change

By: Garri Kimovich Kasparov,Donald Trelford

Den russiske skakverdensmester Garri Kasparov (f. 1963) beretter om sit liv og opvækst og sit syn på Sovjetunioner og Vesten samt om de mange dramaer i det internationale skakliv

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Social Complexity in the Making

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Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature

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The Cassowary's Revenge

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