ISBN:
9781351886222
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 p)
Series Statement:
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Parallel Title:
Print version Wardlow, Holly The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change
DDC:
306.0995
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Humiliation and Transformation: Marshall Sahlins and the Study of Cultural Change in Melanesia -- 1 The Economics of Develop-man in the Pacific -- 2 The Humiliations of Sin: Christianity and the Modernization of the Subject among the Urapmin -- 3 Transformations of Desire: Envy and Resentment among the Huli of Papua New Guinea
Abstract:
4 'We Are Not Straight': Bumbita Arapesh Strategies for Self-Reflection in the Face of Images of Western Superiority -- 5 Sepik River Selves in a Changing Modernity: From Sahlins to Psychodynamics -- 6 'We Are All "Les" Men': Sorrow and Modernism in Melanesia, or Humor in Paradise -- 7 Moral and Practical Frameworks for the Self in Conditions of Social Change -- 8 The Death of Moka in Post-Colonial Mount Hagen, Highlands, Papua New Guinea -- 9 On the Life and Times of the Ipili Imagination -- 10 On Humiliation and Class in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Abstract:
11 Turning to Violence: Hazarding Intent in Central New Ireland -- 12 Ancestral Vigilance and the Corrective Conscience in Kwaio: Kastom as Culture in a Melanesian Society -- Afterword - Frustrating Modernity in Melanesia -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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