▪ Abstract Southeast Asia is probably the part of the world most closely associated by
anthropologists with an interpretive concept of culture. Yet do such ideas as culture areas or …

An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the
context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding …

Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe
their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of …

This is the first book to bring together comparative material on headhunting in a number of
Southeast Asian societies, to examine the cultural contexts in which such practices occurred …

The socio-cultural behaviour of Scandinavian Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has been difficult
to understand due to the dearth of sites thus far investigated. Recent excavations at …

Mutations in the indigenous tribes occurred quickly: in just a few centuries, and sometimes in
as little as fifty years, cultural heritage can disappear or becomes a soulless tourist trap …

Metal artefacts are important items of social expression (Childs & Killick 1993: 331) and are
commonly used to mark major changes in a person's life-cycle (Sofaer Derevenski 2000) …

Classical theorists have focused on the “gift of life” in sacrifice and its reinforcement of
hierarchical divisions, but have paid little attention to the violent “taking of life” and the …

Tourism has been theorized in a new ethnography of modernity, stressing the
museumization of the premodern and its production as spectacle. In this article, I explore the …

ABSTRACT Historical records for Torres Strait, including those from Haddon's 1898
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, identify the Papuan mainland as the main trade …