"Many of the chapters in this collection were first presented in a session at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 1999"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Bodies in transition : an introduction to emerging forms of praxis in the Pacific / Sandra Bamford -- Ch. 2. Producing Omie locality / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Ch. 3. "Our skins are weak" : Ipili modernity and the demise of discipline / Jerry Jacka -- Ch. 4. Machine-thinking : changing social and bodily divisions around the Ok Tedi Mining Project / Tony Crook -- Ch. 5. "Dying culture" and decaying bodies / Thomas Strong -- Ch. 6. Modalities of modernity in Maisin society / John Barker -- Ch. 7. Unholy noses / Sandra Bamford -- Ch. 8. thickness of blood : Kwoma definitions of "us" and "you" / Margaret Holmes Williamson -- Ch. 9. "Family planning" : the politics of reproduction in Central New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Ch. 10. Self-decoration in Hagen and Duna (Papua New Guinea) : display and disjuncture / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Ch. 11. body of postcards from Vanuatu / Lamont Lindstrom -- Afterword -- embodied historicities / Eric Hirsch.