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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: A Record of the Travels, Adventures, and Experiences of a Resident Magistrate Amongst the Head-Hunting Savages and Cannibals of the Unexplored Interior of New Guinea; Original Published by: Seeley, Service & co. limited. in 1920 in 373 pages; Subjects: Papuans; Ethnology; Papua New Guinea; Papua; History / Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Travel / Australia & Oceania; ... Read more

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Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects. ... Read more

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The troubled history of Equatorial Guinea reflects, in many ways, the history of other developing nations. Among the newest of postcolonial nations, Equatorial Guinea has suffered political instability and the resulting economic dislocation. The state-sponsored terror under the regime of first president Francisco Macias Nguema forced many to flee, leaving the economy, long dependent on the cocoa plantation system, in shambles. Dr. Sundiata traces the state's troubled path from colonialism to independence, emphasizing the obstacles that separate Equatorial Guinea from complete self-sufficiency. ... Read more

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A small West African nation with bountiful resources and an extraordinary diversity of ethnic groups, Guinea Bissau was, until independence in 1974, a Portuguese colony surrounded by Franco-phone neighbours. This profile offers an overview of the country's history and culture - including precolonial peoples, the slave trade, resistance to colonial rule, and the struggle for independence - and then focuses on the political conflict and economic crisis that have characterized the post independence period. ... Read more

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First published in 1744, this account describes the "customs, manners, soil, climate, habits, buildings, education, manual arts, agriculture, trade, employments, languages, ranks of distinction, habitations, diversions, marriages and whatever else is memorable about the Inhabitants. ... Read more

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Conceiving Cultures reflects on the ways anthropologists come to understand and represent the people and cultures that they study. These ideas are developed through an ethnographic study that explores notions of the gendered person through knowledge of and practices relating to reproductive health on the Massim island of Nuakata in Papua New Guinea. In a distinct and engaging style, Shelley Mallett describes the ways that Massim women manage their reproductive health and notes the tensions that arise as they negotiate a path between conflicting local traditions and state-sponsored, Western-style medical practices. The interaction among local women, a community health worker, and practitioners of traditional medicine provides a focus for reflection on the impact of Western medical knowledge and practices on local ideas concerning gender, person, body, spirit, individuality, agency, and mortality.
By conjoining problems of reproductive health with feminist and anthropological theories on the gendered person and the political/ethical dilemmas of writing cultures, this book makes a unique contribution to contemporary theorizing about these cross-disciplinary debates. The text asserts the legitimate place of reflexive, if not autobiographic, ethnographic genres, especially in studies of person, place, and gender relations.
Shelley Mallett is Research Fellow, the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1788 edition by J. Phillips, London. ... Read more

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Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkable rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The dictionary covers major economic, social, political and cultural developments, basic geographic information, and biographies. ... Read more

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The subject of colonialism encompasses a multitude of analytic concerns about the nature and extent of political controls, economic inequalities, and social hierarchies. Underlying the varied conditions of power and subordination are the diverse, sometimes contested representations of human difference that motivate, support, or question colonial practices and projects. Unstable Images concentrates a critical gaze on this discursive side of colonialism through close readings of a series of Western texts on the people of New Ireland from the 1870s to the 1930s—when the status of the New Ireland–New Britain region changed from precolonial to German control and finally to a League of Nations mandated Australian administration.

By narrowing her focus in both space and time, Brenda Clay reveals new insights into the complex dynamics through which images of "self" and "other" are continually transformed. Engaging with the current literature on both colonialism! and processes of creativity within cross-cultural encounters, Unstable Images provides an in-depth analysis of Western colonial representations along with a reflective ethnographic understanding of islander responses. Through selective, careful reading of these texts—written for the most part by missionaries and anthropologists—Clay imparts a sense of the complexities and ambiguities inherent in colonial socialities. She purports that representations of "otherness" are essentially unstable, observable in ambivalence, contradictions, ambiguities, and alterations within and between discourses. Colonial situations did not produce mere echoes from the metropolis but instead yielded diverse discursive performances emerging out of local contingencies.

Although the examined representations occur within, or just prior to, the institution of colonialism in the islands, Unstable Images is a perceptive look at the processes through which people formulate and express motivating separations between themselves and others. It will prompt readers to rethink previous conceptions about the colonial encounter and contribute substantially to postcolonial debates. ... Read more

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This is the first complete English translation of Ludewig Ferdinand Romer's sensitive account of Gold Coast (modern Ghana) in the mid 1700s. A vital resource on the history of West Africa, Romer's work offers rich descriptions of African societies, trading practices with Europe, and religion. ... Read more

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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora. ... Read more

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An Excellent book!
Highly recommended for anyone interested in west African and diaspora history. The author uses a multi-disiplinary approach to go beyond the limits of written history to show the antiquity, nature and varieties of rice-growing techniques in coastal west Africa, focusing on a small area in what is now the Republic of Guinea. She also shows how the knowledge bases of these people (and some of the people themselves) were transplanted in the New World.It is particularly refreshing to see that, in addition to having an excellent command of the literature in a wide range of relevant topics (including such unusual things like Mangrove botany), she has also directly collected ethnographic and linguistic data and has even worked alongside African rice farmers in leech-infested water fending off swarms of mosquitoes. ... Read more

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An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects ... Read more

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Snelgrave was a trader at a time when commerce between England and Guinea was rapidly increasing. First published in 1734, he discusses how the Negroes became slaves, their export from Guinea to America, their mutinies, piracies and sacrifices. ... Read more

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Sea captain's account of piracy and the African slave trade.
Captain William Snelgrave's "New Account" is the eye-witnessnarrative of an early eighteenth century British sea captain who spent muchof his career as a slave trader between Africa's Guinea coast and the WestIndies.The book provides a fascinating inside view of the African side ofthe slave trade.Snelgrave was the first European visitor of the craftyand powerful King of Dahomey who was waging a war of conquest against hisAfrican neighbors.Snelgrave paints a graphic portrait of the villages hevisits, the societies of the various kingdoms (the cultures were quitedifferent), the rituals including widespread human sacrifice, and of coursethe very competative and mercantile-based slave trade.Most of the slavesof this region were the captives of the interminable wars and intriguesbetween the kingdoms.Malefactors of a given tribe were also enslaved, butwere usually kept for a kind of indentured servitude at home rather thanbeing sold to the white slave traders.Snelgrave set down many amazingfirst-hand vignettes, including the time, while the guest of a chieftain,he witnessed a mass human sacrifice.When the villagers started tosacrifice a infant boy, Snelgrave could stand it no more, and asked thechieftain to desist.At grave risk to himself and his men, Snelgrave tookup arms and stated clearly that he would not allow this sacrifice to takeplace.The chief reluctantly sold the boy to Snelgrave.When he broughtthe child aboard his ship, he was witness to a touching reunion between theboy and one of the female slaves aboard his ship, who turned out to be theboy's mother.Later, at Barbadoes, Snelgrave purchased the boy and hismother out of his personal funds and granted them their freedom.Thebiographical information about the subtle King of Dahomey and his conquestsand strategies make for very interesting reading.For all of hisfierceness and policy, this redoubtable king wilted in the face of theperiodic attacks of the people of the Loes from beyond the great easternlake.The Loes warriors came mounted on horses, and the Dahomeys did notknow how to contend with them.The interior of Africa was very mysteriousto Snelgrave and his associates.The Europeans were not allowed topenetrate more than 50 miles into the interior, and only rumors and legendsreached them about these mysterious lands.The last third of the bookcontains the spellbinding account of Snelgrave's capture by pirates.Hisship was taken by the pirate Cocklyn off the coast of Africa.The accountof his captivity among the bloodthirsty, foulmouthed crew is harrowing. The drunken quartermaster had a grudge against Snelgrave for trying torally his crew to fight off the pirates during the capture, and made atleast three attempts to murder Snelgrave, most of which were foiled by hisown inebrity or the chance intercession of other pirates who were betterdisposed toward Snelgrave.Another of the pirate captains, Davis, sailedaway from Cocklyn's ship, with Davis later being killed by the Portugesewhile visiting one of their African colonies.The man who took over Davis'ship was none other than the infamous Bartholomew Roberts, one of history'smore renowned pirates.This book is captivating, not only telling acompelling true action story, but revealing history from the perspective ofone who witnessed it first hand. ... Read more