ASAO Monograph #15

MIGRATION AND TRANSFORMATIONS:
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON NEW GUINEA 

Edited by Andrew J. Strathern and Gabriele Stürzenhofecker

 

University of Pittsburgh Press 1994

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Introduction
Andrew J. Strathern and Gabriele Stürzenhofecker

1. Organizing the Social Flow in an East Sepik Village
Karen Brison

2. Who Are the Ndu? Ecology, Migration, and Linguistic and Cultural Change in the Sepik Basin
Paul B. Roscoe

3. Pig Feasts and Expanding Networks of Cultural Influence in the Upper Fly-Digul Plain
Robert L. Welsch

4. Trade, Migration, and Exchange: The Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya in a Comparative Perspective
Jelle Miedema

5. Reassessing Competitive Leadership and Economic Exchange in South-Coastal New Guinea
Bruce M. Knauft

6. Ethnohistorical and Mythological Traditions of Places of Origin, Paths of Migration, and Formations of Communities Among the Bimin-Kuskusmin, West Sepik (Sandaun) Province, Papua New Guinea
Fitz John Porter Poole

7. Duna in Between: Scales of Variation in Montane New Guinea
Gabriele Stürzenhofecker

8. Lines of Power
Andrew J. Strathern

9. A Prehistoric Instroduction of the Sweet Potato in New Guinea:
Richard Scaglion and Kimberly A. Soto

10. Melanesian Interaction at the Regional Scale: Spatial Relationships in a Fluid Landscape
Timothy Bayliss-Smith