Life and art in Papua New Guinea

This chapter begins with a historical background on Papua New Guinea. It then identifies the groups that fall within the category of ‘minorities’ and ‘indigenous peoples’. This is ...

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of recent and current work in linguistic anthropology, particularly in the ways in which different extant language groups talk (and thus...

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a l...

What is a state? This volume approaches the question from an anthropological perspective, which means that the starting point of the analysis is not the concept of the state, but i...

The book examines the extent to which States in the Pacific region have put in place legislative and administrative measures designed to promote and protect the rights of minoritie...

Abstract Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes tha...

This chapter reconstructs how Nalca, a Mek language of the Trans-New Guinea phylum, has acquired gender markers and describes the non-canonical properties of this highly unusual ge...