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ABSTRACTIn this article I discuss the systematisation of Maori tradition in New Zealand during the 1970s and 1980s. More particularly, my focus is on the politicisation and rationalisation of Maori tradition within the New Zealand state, these processes occurring partly in response to calls by Maori leaders for a dismantling of colonial and monocultural structures in New Zealand and reactive objectifications of Maori tradition which challenged the legitimacy of the post‐colonial state administration. I begin with a consideration of the main objectives towards which the systematisation of tradition has been directed over the past two decades, and I examine the way in which priorities have shifted in response to reactive politicisations of ethnic identity. I then draw upon a number of specific examples to illustrate the ethnicisation and rationalisation of Maori tradition as aspects of the systematisation process within the New Zealand stat

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02457.x

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ABSTRACTThis paper deals with how the Yupno's mental image of proper settlement patterns has been changed through the experience of an ‘outside world’. The Yupno inhabit a rugged, extremely remote, mountainous region of the Eastern Finisterre Range in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. Teptep is the administrative centre. The region is one of the last unexplored areas of Papua New Guinea. The old Yupno grew up in an isolated world, which was bounded both externally (they knew only their own valley) and internally (the fenced‐in dwelling house was the centre of the settlement structure). After the Second World War, however, the valley was ‘opened’: schools were established and some younger Yupno left their valley to visit the cities of Madang and Lae. This experience of the ‘outside world’ changed the mental image of their own settlement territory. When asked to draw their own area, i.e. to externalise their mental image in the sense of Piaget, the Yupno without ‘outside’‐experience (the old men and the children without school education) drew a closed, usually oval world with the Yupno river at its centre (the valley as the ‘world’), whereas those who had ‘outside’‐experience drew an open, recta

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02458.x

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ABSTRACTThree recent articles have examined head‐hunting and kidnapping rumors in connection with construction sacrifice on Borneo and Flores. This paper presents further information on such rumors on Flores and elsewhere in Indonesia which largely confirms their interpretations. However, the argument is made that rather than being a new phenomenon and a product of the colonial era, these rumors may well have been characteristic of Indonesia from ancient times and have typically been associated with offices of political and military potency. Policies and activities of the Dutch near the Solor islands since the seventeenth century may have strongly reinforced suspicions that they were capable of taking heads through local agent

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02459.x

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ABSTRACTThe present paper attempts to understand what the Ankave‐Anga are saying about gender, kinship and parenthood through the representations that take the human body as a focal point. I try to show that, while representations of bodily substances and procreation do not explicitly deal with patrilineality, they do underlie practices which pertain to the realm of kinship. It is mainly the existence of ties between an individual and his or her mother, and therefore with her kin, that is expressed. These ties appear to be characterized by the sharing of food, conviviality, joy. Overall a strong identity defines individuals linked through the female line. The Ankave, and probably with them other southern Anga groups, appear to be different from the ones already known with respect to ideas about procreation, growth and male maturatio

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02460.x

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02461.x

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Contemporary Pacific Societies. Studies in Development and Change. Edited byVictoria S. Lockwood, Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace.Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1993. In Exploring Cultures: A Prentice Hall Series in Anthropology. Pp. x + 374.Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Edited byAlbert B. Robillard.London: Kegan Paul International. 1992. Pp. xvi + 507. Price £45 (cloth bound)

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02462.x

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Mararoko: A Study in Melanesian Religion. ByMary MacDonald.New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 1991. American University Studies, Series XI, Vol. 5. Pp. ix + 591.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02463.x

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Taem Blong Faet: World War Two In MelanesiaEdited byHugh Laracy and Geoffrey White.A Journal of Solomon Island Studies, No. 4, Special Issue. 1988. Pp. ii + 145.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1993.tb02464.x

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