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Embodying modernity and postmodernity : ritual, praxis, and social change in Melanesia / edited by Sandra Bamford.

Title
Embodying modernity and postmodernity : ritual, praxis, and social change in Melanesia / edited by Sandra Bamford.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting (98th : 1999 : Chicago, Ill.)
  • American Anthropological Association. Meeting (98th : 1999 : Chicago, Ill.)
  • Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
Description
xxi, 293 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
Uniform Title
Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.
Subject
  • Culture and globalization > Melanesia > Congresses
  • Gebruiken
  • Human body > Social aspects > Melanesia > Congresses
  • Human body > Symbolic aspects > Melanesia > Congresses
  • Lichamelijkheid
  • Melanesia > Social conditions > Congresses
  • Melanesië
  • Politics and culture > Melanesia > Congresses
  • Sex role > Melanesia > Congresses
  • Sociaal-economische verandering
  • Social change > Melanesia > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • "Many of the chapters in this collection were first presented in a session at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 1999"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Bodies in transition : an introduction to emerging forms of praxis in the Pacific / Sandra Bamford -- Ch. 2. Producing Omie locality / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Ch. 3. "Our skins are weak" : Ipili modernity and the demise of discipline / Jerry Jacka -- Ch. 4. Machine-thinking : changing social and bodily divisions around the Ok Tedi Mining Project / Tony Crook -- Ch. 5. "Dying culture" and decaying bodies / Thomas Strong -- Ch. 6. Modalities of modernity in Maisin society / John Barker -- Ch. 7. Unholy noses / Sandra Bamford -- Ch. 8. thickness of blood : Kwoma definitions of "us" and "you" / Margaret Holmes Williamson -- Ch. 9. "Family planning" : the politics of reproduction in Central New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Ch. 10. Self-decoration in Hagen and Duna (Papua New Guinea) : display and disjuncture / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Ch. 11. body of postcards from Vanuatu / Lamont Lindstrom -- Afterword -- embodied historicities / Eric Hirsch.
ISBN
  • 0890894760 (pbk.)
  • 9780890894767 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2005003373