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Areas of Specialization

Hunter-gatherers, cultural systems of sharing and exchange, ethnoarchaeology, ethology ecology, warfare, oral history; Highland Papua New Guinea, southern Africa

Research

Publications

Books

1998 Wiessner, P. and A. Tumu. Historical Vines: Tracing Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual and Warfare among the Enga of Papua New Guinea. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington,D.C.

1992 Kayakas, A. and P. Wiessner. From Inside the Women's House: The Lives and Traditions of Enga Women. Robert Brown, Brisbane.

Journal Articles

1996 Leveling the Hunter: Constraints on the status quest in foraging societies. In Food and the Status Quest. Edited by P. Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhovel. Berghahn Books, Oxford.

1994 Pathways of the Past: !Kung San Hxaro exchange and history. In Uberlebensstrategien in Afrika. Edited by M. Bollig and Frank Klees. Colloquium Africanum 1. Henirich-Barth Institut, Koln.

1993 Hxaro. In Im Spiegel der Anderen. Edited by W. Scheifenhovel, J. Uher and R. Krell. Munchen: Realis, pp. 174-9.

1993 Die Buschleute. In Im Spiegel der Anderen. Edited by W. Scheifenhovel, J. Uher and R. Krell. Munchen: Realis, pp. 16-25.

1990 Is there a unity to style? In the Uses of Style in Archaeology. Edited by M. Conkey and C. Hastorf. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 105-112.

1988 Style and changing relations between the individual and society. In The Meaning of Things: Material culture and synbolic expression. Edited by Ian Hodder. London.