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The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world

Title
The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world / Ira Bashkow.
Author
Bashkow, Ira.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Description
xix, 329 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Ethnic identity
  • Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Psychology
  • Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Attitudes
  • Black people > Race identity > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
  • First contact (Anthropology) > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
  • Ethnopsychology > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
  • Race awareness > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
  • Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) > Race relations
  • Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the cultural construction of whitemen -- Cultural world, postcolonial situation -- The lightness of whitemen -- The bodies of whitemen -- The foods of whitemen -- Conclusion: Whitemen beyond.
Call Number
JFE 06-9471
ISBN
  • 0226038904 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226038912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005031375
  • 9780226038902
  • 9780226038919
OCLC
62281609
Author
Bashkow, Ira.
Title
The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world / Ira Bashkow.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.
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9780226038902
9780226038919
Research Call Number
JFE 06-9471
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