Research Catalog

Title

Man and a half : essays in Pacific anthropology and ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer / edited by Andrew Pawley.

Publication

Auckland : Polynesian Society, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Bulmer, R. N. H.
• Pawley, Andrew

Description

vii, 624 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Memoir ; no. 48

Uniform Title

Memoirs of the Polynesian Society v. 48.

Subject

• Bulmer, Ralph, 1928-1988
• Anthropology > Pacific Area
• Ethnobotany > Pacific Area
• Ethnozoology > Pacific Area
• Ethnology > Pacific Area

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Festschriften
• Festschriften.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Notes on a large small game hunter / Andrew Pawley -- Hans Breitmann gife a barty / Ellaine Mabbutt -- 'Big-man', neighbor, teacher, friend / Helga M. Griffith -- What is this many up to / Ian Saem Majnep -- Notes and quotes concerning the further collaboration of Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer -- Ralph Bulmer / Alice Bulmer -- The chicken and the egg-head revisited / Brent Berlin -- A linguist revisits the New Zealand bush / Bruce Biggs -- On the botanical life-form "tree" / Cecil H. Brown -- Fingota/Fangota / Ross Clark -- Interview techniques in ethnobiology / Jared M. Diamond -- Hunting and harvesting / peter Dwyer and Monica Minnegal -- Grass, grerb or weed / Roy Ellen -- Operative aspects of folk classification / Claudine Friedberg -- Interest, use, and interest in uses in folk biology -- Denizens of the deep / Robin Hooper -- Animals as metaphors in Rotumann sayings / Alan Howard and Jan Rensel -- Sahaptin bird classification / Eugene S. Hunn -- Why is wine not booze / Julie Park -- Worms that bite and other aspects of Wola soil lore / Paul Sillitoe -- Biological nomenclature, classification and the ethnozoological specieme / Michael J. Tyler -- Ethno-icythology in the Upper Wainimala Valley, Viti Levu / Alanieta Waqaniu and Garth Rogers -- When all else fails / Georgeda Buchbinder -- Pigs, dogs and children in Molima / Ann Chowning -- There's more than one way to be a Huqe / Peter Crowe -- Ralph Bulmer among the master detectives / Mary Douglas.
• Empirical attitudes among the Onabasulu / Thomas M. Ernst -- Cockatoo, hornbill, kingfisher / Steven Feld -- A Darwinist manifesto / Robin Foz -- The birdman of Kiripia / Michael Goddard -- Fishermen of Manumanu / Murray Groves -- Why is the cassowary sacrificed / Chris Healey -- many voices / Christine Helliwell -- Aspects of skipjack fishing / Antony Hooper and Judith Huntsman -- The Kam Basin homeland of the Wopkaimin / David Hyndman -- Is taboo alive / Graham Jackson -- The uses of knowledge in Kwaio society / Roger Keesing / Transactions and ownership in Central Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu / Tomas Ludvigson -- Atrocities and culture / Kenneth Maddock -- The ancestresses of the Miyanmin and Telefolmin / George E.B. Morren, Jr -- The willed and the wild / Jan Pouwer -- Do we believe in witchcraft / Inge Riebe -- Buka marriage ritual and the power of Tsunono / Eleanor Rimoldi and Max Rimoldi -- From ceremonial exchange to capitalist exchange / Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman -- Tipuna-ancestors / Anne Salmond -- The ceremonial self / Eric Schwimmer -- Naming people / Marilyn Strathern -- Literary art forms among the Binandere / John D. Waiko -- Group and ethnic stereotypy / James B. Watson -- The sea eagle and other heroic birds of Nidula mythology / Michael W. Young -- On Haruai vowels / Bernard Comrie -- Marked prounouns and verbs for marked social relationships in a Chadic and a Papuan language / Herbert John Davies -- Tikopia songs of the sea / Raymond Firth and Rosemary Firth.
• We threw away our bows and axes / John Kias and Lyle Scholz -- Pigs and dogs in island Melanesia / John Lynch -- Saying things in Kalam / Andrew Pawley -- Austronesian classification and the choice of endeavour / Wedny Pond -- Sociolinguistic dimensions of Kaluli relationship terms / Bambi B. Schieffelin and Steven Feld -- Hunting for Wallabies / Jim Allen -- Manus, mortars and theKava concotion / Wal Ambrose -- Variation and change in stone tools in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea / Susan Bulmer -- Bird-man amulets and Tridacna shell discs from Taumako, Solomon Islands / Janet Davidson and Foss Leach -- Bulmer phase II / Joack Golson -- Near and remote oceania / R.C. Green -- Themes in the prehistory of coastal Papua and the Massim / Geoffrey Irwin -- Bulmer phase I / Mary-Jane Mountain -- Edai Siabo / Nigel Oram -- Oral prehistory and the sequence of events / Marie Reay -- The archaeology of belief / Douglas G. Sutton -- Garden boundaries as indicators of past land-use strategies / Pamela Swadling -- Domestication / D.E. Yen -- Sovereignty vs Rangatiratanga / I.H. Kawharu -- 'History is a way of musing upon ourselves' / Roderic Lacey -- Participation in the modern sector and the width of urban interethnic interaction / H.B. Levin -- Some Samoan observations on science and scientists / Cluny MacPherson and La'avasa MacPherson -- The ambiguities of advocacy / Mervyn Meggitt -- Applied anthropology / Maev O'Collins -- Citizenship in Papua New Guinea / Anton Ploeg.
• "Company" in Kopiago / Andrew Strathern -- The genesis and transformation of the Waitangi Tribunal / Ranginui J. Walker.

ISBN

0908940017

OCLC

• 27323648
• SCSB-10389017

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library