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The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change
- Title
- The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change / edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow.
- Publication
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 227 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Joel Robbins -- Economics of develop-man in the Pacific / Marshall Sahlins -- The humiliations of sin : Christianity and the modernization of the subject among the Urapmin / Joel Robbins -- Transformations of desire : envy and resentment among the Huli of Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- "We are not straight" : Bumbita Arapesh strategies for self-reflection in the face of images of western superiority / Stephen C. Leavitt -- Sepik River selves in a changing modernity : from Sahlins to psychdynamics / Eric Kline Silverman -- "We are all 'les' men" : sorrow and modernism in Melanesia, or, Humor in paradise / Douglas Dalton -- Moral and practical frameworks for the self in conditions of social change / Lisette Josephides -- The death of moka in post-colonial Mount Hagen, highlands, Papua New Guinea / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- On the life and times of the Ipili imagination / Aletta Biersack -- On humiliation and class in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz -- Turning to violence : hazarding intent in central New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Ancestral vigilance and the corrective conscience in Kwaio : kastom as culture in a Melanesian society / David Akin -- Afterword: Frustrating modernity in Melanesia / Robert J. Foster.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-9970
- ISBN
- 0754643123 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005007435
- OCLC
- 58563102
- Title
- The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change / edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow.
- Imprint
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
- Series
- Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Robbins, Joel, 1961-Wardlow, Holly.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-9970