The ascription of desires or beliefs to other people is a milestone of human sociality. It allows us to understand, explain, and predict human behaviour. During the last years, research on children's knowledge about the mental world,...

This in-depth ethnography presents new and otherwise not easily accessible results of thirty years of anthropological field research among the Yupno people of Papua New Guinea. Anthropological studies about cultures in the Finisterre...

"Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction" von Jürg Wassmann untersucht die Art und Weise, wie indigene Gemeinschaften im Pazifikraum ihre kulturelle Identität angesichts des westlichen Einflusses...