From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology''s most important and intensively studied world regions? In this book, Professor Bruce Knauft draws together and critically reanalyzes what we know about major features of Melanesian cultural history, warfare and politics, gender, bodily practices, and spirituality as discerned from more than a century of academic study. From...