Papers by Martha Macintyre
Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact, 1989
Oceania, 2000
INTRODUCTION Land disputes are commonplace in many parts of the Solomon Islands.1 In the course o... more INTRODUCTION Land disputes are commonplace in many parts of the Solomon Islands.1 In the course of dis-cussions about, and attempts to resolve such disputes, people assert rights of access to, and use of property on the basis of systems of descent reckoning and ...
Reviews in Anthropology, 1994
L'A. analyse 3 ouvrages traitant des problèmes de Temps et d'Histoire, de l'histor... more L'A. analyse 3 ouvrages traitant des problèmes de Temps et d'Histoire, de l'historicité et de la temporalité dans le Pacifique. D. Battaglia dans « On the bones of the serpent : person, memory and mortality in Sabarl island society » (Iles Louisiades) explique la conceptualisation de ...
Journal de la Société des océanistes, 1987
RÉSUMÉ Cet article examine les idées autochtones sur les fonctions de la nourriture à Tubetube da... more RÉSUMÉ Cet article examine les idées autochtones sur les fonctions de la nourriture à Tubetube dans la région du Massim méridional, où la nourriture elle-même, l'action de la donner et celle de la recevoir créent des liens entre parents et enfants. La première partie étudie ...
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2014
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2014
Two years ago when I was in Lihir working on the research that I draw on in this paper I asked a ... more Two years ago when I was in Lihir working on the research that I draw on in this paper I asked a woman with whom I work: "What does money do?" She replied " It makes men drunk and young women single mothers -money has spoiled this place."
Oceania; a journal devoted to the study of the native peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific
ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s, people in Melanesian countries have been beguiled by the prospect of economic de... more Since the 1970s, people in Melanesian countries have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system and so allow them to progress, to improve their standards of living and to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. The forms of participation available to them and
Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1978
Current Anthropology, 2015
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Papers by Martha Macintyre
some stories about the ways that guns are acquired for illegal activities. In particular, I shall discuss the ways that guns and beer are instruments of violence and potency for police, tribal warriors and criminals as well as some of the means
whereby men gain access to new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research with young men in New Ireland Province, the paper will deal specifically with the ways that adolescent boys construe ‘modern masculinity’.