Ethnological and biogeographical significance of pottery sherds from Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea / Susan Kaplan, Bryn Mawr College.

The use of strontium isotopes as an indicator of migration in human and pig Lapita populations in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

“…Pigs in the Southwest Pacific Islands have been documented in ethnographic accounts as being highly valued commodities in Melanesian communities (Foster, 1995;Kaplan, 1976;Specht, 1974). They were widely traded within and between island groups in the Bismarck Archipelago in which the Anir Islands were actively involved.…”

“…They were widely traded within and between island groups in the Bismarck Archipelago in which the Anir Islands were actively involved. Each island group within this exchange network produced a specialised trade item which was distributed throughout the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands particularly pigment, canoes, shell valuables, clay pipes and pigs (Foster, 1995;Kaplan, 1976; Fig. 2).…”

Lihir Destiny : Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia

“…14 Commonly known 13 See Kaplan (1976) for a reconstruction of these trading routes. 14 Measurements are usually taken as the span from the end of one arm to the chest, thus the distance between two outstretched arms would be two param.…”

ANCIENT AND MODERN: The Alaska Collections at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

“…2 Material culture collections are the ultimate "cultural construction of reality" (Berger and Luckmann 1966). Although there have been almost endless critiques of the cultural construction and power-symbolism of museum exhibitions (e.g., Ames 1986Ames , 1992Clifford 1988;Graburn 1977;Graburn and Lee 1988;Halpin 1983;Karp and Lavine 1991;Kreps 2003;Simpson 2001;Vogel 1988), relatively fewer and much more recent works have examined the acquisition and nature of the collections from which these exhibitions were drawn (e.g., Appadurai 1986;Cole 1985;Fane et al 1991;Hail and Duncan 1989;Kaplan and Barsness 1986;Krech 1989;Krech and Hail 1991;O'Hanlon 1993).…”