Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 244 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jebens, Holger After the cult
DDC:
306.6/999212
Keywords:
Cargo cults
;
Papuans Psychology
;
Papuans Attitudes
;
Self-perception
;
Whites Public opinion
;
Public opinion
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Cargo cults
;
Manners and customs
;
Public opinion
;
Self-perception
;
New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
;
Papua New Guinea ; New Britain Island
Abstract:
Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Valentine's Kivung; Chapter 3 -- Present-day memories; Chapter 4 -- Indigenous interpretation; Chapter 5 -- Indigenous perceptions of other and self; Chapter 6 -- Anthropological percetions of other and self; Chapter 7 -- Subjects and objects; Appendices; Glossary; References; Index.
Abstract:
In many parts of the world the "white man" is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of "whiteness" in specific ethnographic contexts. This study examines cultural perceptions of other and self as expressed in cargo cults and masked dances in Papua New Guinea. Indigenous terms, images, and concepts are being contrasted with their western counterparts, the latter partly deriving from the publications and field notes of Charles Valentine. After having done his first fieldwork more than fifty years ago, this "anthropological ancestor" has now become part of the local tradition and has thus turned into a kind of mythical figure. Based on anthropological fieldwork as well as on archival studies, this book addresses the relation between western and indigenous perceptions of self and other, between "tradition" and "modernity," and between anthropological "ancestors" and "descendants." In this way the work contributes to the study of "whiteness," "cargo cults" and masked dances in Papua New Guinea
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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