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Melanesian Modernities

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Author : Jonathan Friedman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Melanesian Modernities written by Jonathan Friedman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

This volume on the anthropology of modern Melanesia deals with topics such as: modern forms of kinship and reciprocity; the contemporary transformations of magic and witchcraft; the articulation of kinship organization and urbanization; the assimilation of urban trappings of modernity to interclan competition; and the politics of culture in Melanesian social movements. The notion of tradition is itself problematized here, rather than taken for granted, and the text contains one of the very last published articles of the late Roger Keesing, who pioneered the study of modern social and political realities in the Pacific.

The Making Of Global And Local Modernities In Melanesia

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Author : Holly Wardlow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05

The Making Of Global And Local Modernities In Melanesia written by Holly Wardlow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Social Science categories.

Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.

Melanesian Odysseys

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Author : Lisette Josephides
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2008

Melanesian Odysseys written by Lisette Josephides and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.

"In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection."--BOOK JACKET.

Religions Of Melanesia

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Author : Garry Trompf
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2006-09-30

Religions Of Melanesia written by Garry Trompf and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-30 with Reference categories.

Religions of Melanesia is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of religious life in a region that boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions.

Embodying Modernity And Postmodernity

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Author : Sandra C. Bamford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Embodying Modernity And Postmodernity written by Sandra C. Bamford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.

This collection of original essays critically examines the relationship between ritual, embodiment, and social change in the South Pacific. Over the past few decades, the societies of Melanesia have undergone profound and revolutionary social change. Encounters with colonialism, postcolonialism, and the forces of globalization have put indigenous peoples in touch with processes of state formation, late capitalist culture, and the emergence of a complex network of transnational identities. In addition to shaping the contours of the nation state, these developments are having a profound impact on the nature of embodied experience. In recent years, many Melanesian societies have witnessed the rise of charismatic Christianity, changing gender configurations, and the growing use of consumerism as a means of defining new social and political hierarchies. Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity provides detailed analyses of those social changes that are becoming part of contemporary Melanesia. Written by experts with first-hand fieldwork experience, this volume furnishes novel insights concerning the social implications of modernity and postmodernity. More specifically, it addresses two interrelated themes: how the rise of new social and economic forms has influenced the ways in which Melanesians think about, experience and act upon their bodies, and the ways in which these new forms of bodily experience contribute to the emergence of new social and cultural identities. This book is part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "While this volume will be of particular interest for regional specialists and theorists of the body, it also makes important contributions to historical analysis of colonial and post-colonial interpretations of modernity and ritual studies. The editor also deserves credit for bringing together a cohesive text, one in which the articles usefully speak to and complement one another." -- Anthropological Forum "This book is a must read for scholars of Melanesia and all scholars of the Anthropology of the Body. There is much to be gleaned theoretically from these ethnographically rich essays." -- Oceania

Money And Modernity

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Author : David Akin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Money And Modernity written by David Akin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.

This collection of original essays explores money and its social dynamic in eight different Melanesian communities in order to determine why the people of Melanesia continue to use traditional kinds of currency, such as shells, alongside more modern types. When the answer to this question is examined in relation to the use of money in other countries, an entirely new model for thinking about money develops.

Encompassing Others

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Author : Edward LiPuma
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001

Encompassing Others written by Edward LiPuma and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.

An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society

Melanesian Lites And Modern Politics In New Caledonia And Vanuatu

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Author : Eric Wittersheim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Melanesian Lites And Modern Politics In New Caledonia And Vanuatu written by Eric Wittersheim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Elite (Social sciences) categories.

Managing Modernity In The Western Pacific

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Author : Martha Macintyre
language : en
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01

Managing Modernity In The Western Pacific written by Martha Macintyre and has been published by University of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Social Science categories.

Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven—all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access to global markets would provide the means to improve their standard of living, allowing them to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific takes a broad sweep through contemporary topics in Melanesian anthropology and ethnography. With nuanced and rigorous scholarship, it views contemporary debate on modernity in Melanesia within the context of the global economy and cultural capitalism. In particular, contributors assess local ideas about wealth, success, speculation, and development and their connections to participation in institutions and activities generated by them. This innovative and accessible collection offers a new intersection between Western Pacific anthropology and global studies.

Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie

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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Zeitschrift F R Ethnologie written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Anthropology categories.