David Lipset

• Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
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Specialties

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Specialties

• The state in the Pacific
• Symbolic, political-legal, and psychoanalytic anthropology
• Bakhtinian dialogism
• Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, the Pacific
• Masculinity, personhood and modernity
• Romance, the body
• Material culture
• NonWestern people in mass media
• Class cross-culturally
• Climate change and culture
• Social theory
• Communications technology, cross-culturally
• Social media

Publications

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Publications

• (1997). Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Papua New Guinea). Cambridge University Press.
• (1980). Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist. Prentice-Hall.
• (2004). Modernity without Romance? Masculinity and Desire in Courtship Stories Told by Young Papua New Guinean Men. American Ethnologist, 31, 205-224.
• (2004). The Trial: A Parody of Law amid the Mockery of Men in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, 10, 63-89.
• (2005). Dead Canoes: The Fate of Agency in 20th century Murik Art. Social Analysis, 49, 109-140.
• Eric K. Silverman (2005). The Moral and the Grotesque: Dialogics of the Body in Two Sepik River Societies (Eastern Iatmul and Murik). Journal of Ritual Studies, 19, 1-42.
• (2014). Place in the Anthropocene: A Mangrove Lagoon in Papua New Guinea in the Time of Rising Sea-levels. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4 (3), 215-243.
• Lipset, David and Richard Handler, eds. (2014). Vehicles: Cars, Canoes and other Metaphors of Moral Imagination. New York: Berghahn.
• (2009). A Melanesian Pygmalion: Masculine Creativity and Symbolic Castration in a Postcolonial Backwater. Ethos, 37, 50-77.
• (2007). Women Without Qualities: More Courtship Stories told by Papua New Guinea Youth. Ethnology, 46, 93-111.
• Jamon Halvaksz (2006). Another Kind of Gold: An Introduction to Marijuana in Papua New Guinea. Oceania, 76, 209-219.
• (2006). Tobacco, Good and Bad: Prosaics of Marijuana in a Sepik Society. Oceania, 76, 245-257.
• Kathleen Barlow (1997). Dialogics of Material Culture: Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes. American Ethnologist, 24, 4-36.
• Jolene M. Stritecky (1994). The Problem of Mute Metaphor: Gender and Kinship in Seaboard Melanesia. Ethnology, 33, 1-20.
• Michael Meeker, Kathleen Barlow (1986). Culture, Exchange and Gender: Lessons from the Murik. Cultural Anthropology, 1, 6-74.
• (2011). The Tides: Masculinity and Climate Change in Coastal Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17, 20-43.
• (2009). Smoke as Mirror: Marijuana, the State and Representations of the Nation in Pacific Newspapers. Ethnology, 48, 119-138.
• Lipset, David and Paul Roscoe, eds. (2011). Echoes of the Tambaran: Masculinity, History and the Subject in the Work of Donald F. Tuzin. Canberra: ANU EPress. http://epress.anu.edu.au/tambaran_citatation.html
• (2011). Skirts-Money-Masks and Chains of Masculine Signification in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea. . Echoes of the Tambaran: Masculinity, History and the Subject in the Work of Donald F. Tuzin , 73-102.
• (2013). The New State of Nature: Rising Sea-levels, Climate Justice and Community-based Adaptation in Papua New Guinea (2003-2011). Conservation and Society, 11, 144-157.
• Lipset, David (2015). Hero, Savage, or Equal? Representations of the Moral Personhood of Pacific Islanders in Hollywood Movies. Pacific Studies 38 (1/2):103-139.
• Lipset, David and Eric K. Silverman eds. (2016). Mortuary Dialogues: Death Rites and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities. New York: Berghahn.
• David Lipset (2017). Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lipset, David. "On the bridge: class and the chronotope of modern romance in an American love story." Anthropological Quarterly 88 (1) (2015): 163-186.

• Lipset, David (2016). Colonial and postcolonial museum collecting in Papua New Guinea. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 27:333-352

• Lipset, David (2017). Masculinity and the culture of rising sea-levels in a mangrove lagoon in Papua New Guinea. Maritime Studies 16(2): 1-21.

• Lipset, David (2017). Mobile telephones in peri-urban Papua New Guinea. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 144-145:195-208.

• Lipset, David (2018). De-colonized collecting: The Australian Museum in the Lower Sepik (1988). Le Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 146:129-141.

• Lipset, David (2019). Disney's Moana and the Portrayal of Moral Personhood in Hollywood's Pacific (1932-2016). Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes.

Awards

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Awards

• McKnight Land Grant Professorship

Courses

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Courses

• ANTH 1005W - Cultural Diversity and the World System
• ANTH 3242 W "Hero, Savage or Equal?: Representations of Nonwestern Peoples in the Movies
• ANTH 3046W The Anthropology of Romance
• ANTH 3036 The Body in Society
• ANTH 1003W Understanding Cultures