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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 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
- Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) > Race relations
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Psychology
- Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
- Ethnopsychology > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
- Blacks > Race identity > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
- Race awareness > Papua New Guinea > Oro Province
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Attitudes
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) > Ethnic identity
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction : the cultural construction of whitemen -- 2. Cultural world, postcolonial situation -- 3. The lightness of whitemen -- 4. The bodies of whitemen -- 5. The foods of whitemen -- 6. Conclusion : whitemen beyond.
- ISBN
- 0226038904 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226038912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005031375
- 9780226038902
- 9780226038919
- OCLC
- OCM62281609
- SCSB-5260915
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries