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They Make Themselves

Work and Play Among the Baining of Papua New Guinea

By: Jane Fajans

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They Make Themselves

Work and Play Among the Baining of Papua New Guinea

By: Jane Fajans

For generations of anthropologists, the Baining people have presented a challenge, because of their apparent lack of cultural or social structure. This group of small-scale horticulturists seems devoid of the complex belief systems and social practices that characterize other traditional peoples of Papua New Guinea. Their daily existence is mundane and repetitive in the extreme, articulated by only the most elementary familial relationships and social connections. The routine of everyday life, however, is occasionally punctuated by stunningly beautiful festivals of masked dancers, which the Baining call play and to which they attribute no symbolic significance. In a new work sure to evoke considerable repercussions and debate in anthropological theory, Jane Fajans courageously takes on the "Baining Problem," arguing that the Baining define themselves not through intricate cosmologies or social networks, but through the meanings generated by their own productive and reproductive work.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226234444

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9780226234441

Brazilian Food

Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines

By: Jane Fajans

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Brazilian Food

Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines

By: Jane Fajans

Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and enormous variation from geography and climate to cultures and languages. Within these boundaries are definable regions in which certain customs, history, and shared views help define an identity and cohesion. In many cases, the pattern of settlement and immigration has influenced the culinary culture of Brazil. This book explores the role that food and cuisine play in the construction of identity on both the regional and national levels in Brazil through key case examples. It explores the way in which food has become an important element in attracting tourists to a region as well as a way of making aspects of a culture known beyond its borders as cookbooks, ingredients and restaurants move outward in our globalized world.

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116

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A&C Black

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0857850431

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9780857850430

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

By: Helen V. Firth,Jane A. Hurst

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Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

By: Helen V. Firth,Jane A. Hurst

Preceded by Oxford desk reference. Clinical genetics / Helen V. Firth, Jane A. Hurst, with Judith G. Hall (consulting editor). 2005.

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935

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Oxford University Press

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0199557500

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9780199557509

Fantastic Dreaming

The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

By: Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

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Fantastic Dreaming

The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

By: Jane Lydon, The University of Western Australia

Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers,Fantastic Dreaming examines how spatial organization, the consumption of Western goods, and the practices required by domesticity were used to transform Aboriginal people.

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342

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Rowman Altamira

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0759118043

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9780759118041

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

By: Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison

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On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

By: Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological–and from an insular perspective, successful–struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the non-profit, Population Communication.

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894

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Springer Nature

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3030645266

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9783030645267

Enhancing Efficiency in Supply Chain Management Process

By: Vivek Kumar,Jane Ireri Muriuki,Charles Omondi Oliech,Simon Mwanza Kinyamasyo

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Enhancing Efficiency in Supply Chain Management Process

By: Vivek Kumar,Jane Ireri Muriuki,Charles Omondi Oliech,Simon Mwanza Kinyamasyo

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Supply Chain Performance Influencer in Construction Domain: A Key Factor Analysis Effect of Electronic Procurement Technical Support Staff on Procurement Performance in Energy Sector State Corporations in Kenya Effect of Strategic Procurement Management on Performance of Level Five Hospitals in Kenya Factors Affecting Efficiency in Tendering Process in the Energy Sector in Kenya

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101

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IPR Journals and Book Publishers

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9914728324

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9789914728323

Brazilian Food

Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines

By: Jane Fajans

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Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines

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They Make Themselves

Work and Play Among the Baining of Papua New Guinea

By: Jane Fajans

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For the Jane Bennets

By: Jane Elizabeth

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For the Jane Bennets

By: Jane Elizabeth

In any 17th century English society, a woman like the celebrated Elizabeth Bennet is easily noticed and quick to be admired for her witty tongue and sparkling personality. Yet there are as many of the same sex who have a soft-spoken, humble temper; always looking to please though never explicitly expressing how they feelmuch like Elizabeths sister, Jane Bennet. Ann Ashton is one of such character and disposition, who, on the brink of adulthood, has suddenly been brought into contact again with her childhood friend, Mr. Hampton, whom she had loved in her youth. But the circumstances of their previous parting has made Ann weary of the gentleman, and it will take time and great patience on Hamptons part if he wishes her to open her heart to him once more.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469194406

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They Make Themselves

They Make Themselves

Brazilian Food

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Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics and Genomics

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Fantastic Dreaming

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On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

Enhancing Efficiency in Supply Chain Management Process

Enhancing Efficiency in Supply Chain Management Process

Brazilian Food

Brazilian Food

They Make Themselves

They Make Themselves

For the Jane Bennets

For the Jane Bennets

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