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Culture Change and Ex-Change

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on ‘culture change’, ‘exchange’ and ‘person’ in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePerson, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
Antal sidor313
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785333842

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Maps and PhotographsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations ∧ Note on Foreign TermsIntroduction: Culture Change and ExchangeChapter 1. Bena Stories, Histories and SocialityChapter 2. Unexpected Actions and strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and EconomyChapter 3. In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in BenaChapter 4. Changing Exchanges: Head Payments and Life-Cycle RitualsChapter 5. Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern BenaChapter 6. Sanguma: The ‘Essence-Suckers’Chapter 7. In Exchange with God: Christianity in modern BenaChapter 8. Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in NapamogonaConclusionReferencesIndex

“…this is a well-researched and ethnographically rich book…Readers with an interest in culture change, Melanesian personhood, the anthropology of Christianity, as well as those interested in the recent upsurge in sorcery and witchcraft in Papua New Guinea will find it particularly fascinating.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This book is a rich ethnography of Bena people in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea and their cultural focus on exchange relationships.” • Sabine C. Hess, Australia National University