The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea

The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea

The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea

Annette Barbara Weiner was the documented Cultural Anthropologist, scribe, university Dean, and Professor of Anthropology. She was born in Philadelphia on February 14, 1933, the oldest progeny and only female child of Archibald and Phyllis Cohen. She wed Martin Weiner in 1953 and had two young children, Linda and Jonathan. As the juvenile mature individual, she was engaged as an X-ray Technician and published the series of children's foreign dialect books. (Annette, 1988)

After her young children were developed, and feeling unfulfilled intellectually, she returned to school at the age of 31 to study art. As an undergraduate at Penn State, she was substantially leveraged by the publication called Stranger and Friend, in writing by Hortense Powdermaker, and she became enamored with the concept of evolving an anthropologist. She altered her foremost to anthropology and obtained her Bachelors Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. She acquired her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1974, studying under the guidance of Professors Jane Goodall and Frederica DeLaguna, both documented feminine anthropologists. Her fieldwork was undertook mostly in the Trobriand Islands, Papua, New Guinea, and Guatemala and Western Samoa.

Weiner's foremost assistance to the area of heritage anthropology was her in-depth study of the worth and circulation of goods amidst the Trobrianders of Papua, New Guinea. Her publications encompass Women of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives in Trobriand Exchange (1976), The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea (1988), and Cloth and Human Experience (1992), the publication she co-edited with Jane Schneider. These works deal with issues of exchange, sexuality, power, illusion, and wealth. She also served as an advisor to the accolade triumphant documentary movie, The Trobriand Islanders of Papua, New Guinea (1990), by David Watson for Granada ...