ISBN:
0873386612
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 216 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
DDC:
306/.09956/5
Keywords:
Ceremoniën
;
Medlpa (volk)
;
Politieke verandering
;
Sociaal-economische verandering
;
Soziokultureller Wandel
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Politik
;
Ceremonial exchange
;
Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people) Commerce
;
Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people) Politics and government
;
Political oratory
;
Social change
;
Speeches, addresses, etc., Medlpa
;
Mount Hagen 〈Berg〉
;
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
Abstract:
"Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a post-modern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book makes a cogent argument for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious, and linguistic factors have combined to shape Melpa responses to the political and economic crises they have had to face in the waning years of the millennium
Abstract:
This analysis also contributes notably to the development of anthropological perspectives on colonial and postcolonial historical processes. Since the Melpa face many of the same challenges as other "modernizing" people in the Pacific and elsewhere, Strathern and Stewart's insights are valuable for scholars working on similar problems in a variety of ethnographic regions."--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 198-208
