Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea

by Shelley Mallett

Book Overview

Conceiving Cultures critically reflects on the ways anthropologists come to understand and represent the people and cultures that they study. These ideas are developed through an ethnographic study that explores notions of the gendered person through knowledge and practices relating to reproductive health on the Massim island of Nuakata in Papua New Guinea. Conceiving Cultures makes explicit anthropology's implicit project to understand the self by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472098284
• ISBN13: 9780472098286
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"