![Sample our Area Studies journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5922/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Area-Studies.jpg"})
Abstract
JADRAN MIMICA Intimations of infinity: the mythopoeia of the Iqwaye counting system and number (Explorations in Anthropology). Oxford: Berg. 1988. ix, 188pp., figures, appendices, references, index. £27.50 (hardcover) ISBN 0 85496 145 3. Reviewed by J.A. Barnes
MAEV O'COLLINS and others Women in politics in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change (Working Paper no. 6), Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1985. 79pp., bibliography. $7.00 (plus postage and packaging) ISBN 0 86784 612 7. Reviewed by Jill Nash
LOUISE MORAUTA (ed.) Law and order in a changing society (Political and Social Change Monograph 6). Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change, The Australian National University. 1987. 119 pp., tables, references, index. $9.00 (paper) ISBN 0 86784 935 5. Reviewed by Eugene Ogan
MIRIAM KAHN Always hungry, never greedy: food and the expression of gender in a Melanesian society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. xx, 173pp., plates, figures, maps, tables, appendixes, references, index. $72.00 (hardcover) ISBN 0 521 32222 7. Reviewed by Michael W. Young
FREDERIK BARTH Cosmologies in the making: a generative approach to cultural variation in inner New Guinea (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 64). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. xii, 88pp., map, bibliography, index. $63.00 (hardcover) ISBN 0 521 34279 1. Reviewed by James F. Weiner
JAMES F. WEINER (ed.) Mountain Papuans: historical and comparative perspectives from New Guinea Fringe Highlands societies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1988. 230 pp. figures. tables. appendices. bibliography. index. US$32.50 (cloth) ISBN 0 472 09377 0; US$12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 472 06377 4. Reviewed by Chris Ballard
MAEV O'COLLINS (ed.) Youth and society: perspectives from Papua New Guinea (Political and Social Change Monograph 5). Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1986. ii, 167pp., maps, illustrations, references, index. $9.00 (paper) ISBN 0 86784 771 9. Reviewed by Martha Macintyre
DONALD DENOON with KATHLEEN DUGAN and LESLIE MARSHALL Public health in Papua New Guinea: medical possibility and social constraint, 1884–1984. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. xii, 139pp., maps, bibliography, index. $59.50 (hardcover) ISBN 0 521 36030 7.
STEPHEN FRANKEL and GILBERT LEWIS (eds). A continuing trial of treatment: medical pluralism in Papua New Guinea. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989. vi, 310pp., references, subject index. US$89.00, UK £59.50, Dfl.165.00 (cloth) ISBN 155608 076 X. Reviewed by Julia Byford
SJAAK van der GEEST and SUSAN REYNOLDS WHYTE (eds) The context of medicines in developing countries (Culture, Illness, and Healing vol. 12). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. 1988. xiii, 393pp., indexes. $79.00 (hardcover) ISBN 1 55608 059 X. Reviewed by E. Gnecchi-Ruscone
C.D. THROSBY (ed.) Human resources development in the Pacific (Pacific Policy Papers no. 3). Canberra: National Centre for Development Studies, The Australian National University. 1987. x, 248pp., map, figures, tables, references. $20.00 (paper) ISBN 0 7315 0448 8. Reviewed by Toon van Meijl.
ALAN W. WARD Land and politics in New Caledonia (Political and Social Change Monograph 2). Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1982. ii, 78pp., references, index. $6.00 (paper) ISBN 86784 077 3. Reviewed by Anna Paini
ROBERT BOROFSKY Making history: Pukapukan and anthropological construction of knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1987. xxii, 167pp., maps, figures, drawings, photographs, appendices, bibliography, index. $81.00 (hardcover) ISBN 0 521 30520 9. Reviewed by Helen Kavapatu
DAVID PARKIN (ed.) The anthropology of evil. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1985. iv, 283pp. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 0 631 15432 9. Reviewed by Toby Miller.
AIHWA ONG Spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline: factory women in Malaysia. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1987. xvi, 268pp., tables, maps, diagrams, glossary, bibliography, index. US$39.50 (cloth) ISBN 088706 380 2; US$12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 88706 381 0. Reviewed by Patrick Guinness
A REJOINDER to Peter Mühlhäusler's review of ROT BILONG KAGO by W.E. Tomasetti