Remaking the World

  • Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
    By Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

    Remaking the World is a timely contribution to the literature on agency and the making of cultural identity by indigenous peoples facing economic, social, and political change.

  • Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
    By Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

    Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern. Guinea Highlands. Forexample, in the Hagen area of Western Highlands Province men participating in a Female Spirit cult performance ...

  • Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
    By Henry Petroski

    This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small.

  • Remaking the World: Modeling in Human Experience
    By James Roy King

    Modeling - building, operating, collecting models of all kinds - involves people from many walks of life. From "folk" to highly trained professionals, from skilled artisans to dreamers, modeling is...

  • Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
    By Jessica M. Chapman

    ... Suez Deconstructed : An Interactive Study in Crisis , War , and Peacemaking , edited by Zelikow and Ernest May , 11-28 . Washington , DC : Brookings Institution Press , 2018 . Zinoman , Peter . The Colonial Bastille : A History of ...

  • Remaking the World: Modeling in Human Experience
    By James Roy King

    ... Book . New York : Simon and Schuster . Mann , Thomas . 1955. Confessions of Felix Krull , Confidence Man ... Ships to 1650. Dana Point , Calif .: Moonraker . 1982a . The Art of Ship Modeling . New York : Van Nostrand . 1982b . Planking Model ...

  • Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
    By Jessica Miranda Chapman

    Through six carefully selected case studies - India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran - historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernisation, the ...

  • Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
    By Henry Petroski

    Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912.