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Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the paradigm for a virtual enquiry which explores how the anthropological discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking students to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, it offers working practice of dealing with the obstacles and choices involved in anthropological study. * From an expert teacher whose methods are tried and tested * Comprehensive and fun course ideal for intermediate-level students * Clearly defines the functions of anthropology, and its key theories and arguments * Effectively teaches core study skills for exam success and progressive learning.

Entériner une obligation morale : à propos de la responsabilité visant à améliorer l'accès des enfants de l'île de Bougainville aux services sociaux Cette étude de cas tirée du travail ethnographique examine une situation où les enfants d'une île de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée furent adoptés par les habitants d'une autre. Le processus d'adoption révèle des traits saillants de la structure sociale traditionnelle en même temps qu'il montre comment il s'est avéré une opportunité pour les populations locales d'exercer une pression morale sur leur gouvernement. Cette étude éclaire l'approche maussienne de l'obligation morale et offre un commentaire sur la méthode anthropologique.

Malanggans, ordinarily painted and used at funerals are displayed, unpainted in New Irelands 'international' airport. There they witness the return of dead political leaders returned to their home-clans for burial. Malanggans themselves in funeral use re-centre the dead in kin networks. In the airport, they inspire me to ponder (as perhaps they ponder) the loss of Papua New Guinea socialist democracy, which I elucidate using Mauss' concept of taonga, that was once the postcolonial nation-state. The article draws on Benjamin to show that 'brushing memory against the grain' exposes how the transformations of equality as a value in the socialist democracy into the new social forms of equality as a value in the neo-liberal state occurred through many imperfect transactions. The ethnographic description of the changes in the display of the art to fit with the purposes of the new airport terminal shows, in even the most personal terms, just how fleeting were the promises of equality during independence. © 2013 Copyright Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis.