![]() ![]() Noted archaeologist George Frison brings a lifetime of experience as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in. University of California Press, Berkeley. but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. In a concluding chapter to the book, Stewart and Strathern again discuss the highlands of Papua New Guinea in a theoretically broad and ethnographically impoverished discussion of conversion among people of the Mount Hagen, Pangia and Duna regions. 2004 Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric human predators and animal prey. This emphasis on their own work means other studies, such as the one by Pey-yi Guo on space and power in Christianity among the Langalanga people of Malaita, Solomon Islands, are often taken as illustrating Stewart and Strathern’s analyses of similar topics in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The volume addresses this theme most constructively in the Introduction, in which the editors draw rather heavily on the Duna and Hagen people of highland Papua New Guinea, where Strathern and Stewart have done most of their fieldwork. ![]() This is the result of a longer project of Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart in which they attempt to explore similarities and differences in and between Austronesia and non-Austronesian worlds. ![]() What I found most exciting about this volume is that it brings together studies on religious and ritual change by scholars doing research in Taiwan, and scholars working in Melanesia. ![]()
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