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BUILT IN NIUGINI: CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA

BUILT IN NIUGINI: CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA

BOOK CONTENTS

  • List of tables
  • List of maps
  • List of figures
  • List of plates
  • Chapter 1 Whys and wherefores of construction
  • Chapter 2 A dwelling perspective
  • Chapter 3 Locating the house, locating the social
  • Chapter 4 A seminar: what can archaeology and anthropology do?
  • Chapter 5 Seminar postscript: accessing minds, past and present
  • Chapter 6 Building materials and materiality
  • Chapter 7 House construction: a how-to-do-it account and critique
  • Chapter 8 Some other structures: tradition and change
  • Chapter 9 Snakes and bridges: social constructivism?
  • Chapter 10 Gender structures and divisions
  • Chapter 11 Passing on knowing: hands-on participation
  • Chapter 12 Knowing the tacit
  • Chapter 13 Doing it to know it
  • Appendix: Glossary of Wola construction terms
  • References