Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / Regina Knapp.
2017
DU740.42 .K517 2017
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Title
Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / Regina Knapp.
Author
Knapp, Regina, author.
ISBN
9781785333842 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781785333859 (e-book)
9781785333859 (e-book)
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (313 pages) : color illustrations, maps.
Call Number
DU740.42 .K517 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.899/12
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 6.
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Table of Contents
Bena stories, histories and sociality
Unexpected actions and strategic exchanges : leadership and economy
In exchange with the world : the concept of person in Bena
Changing exchanges : Bena life cycle rituals
Magical practices and their transformations in modern Bena
Sanguma : the 'essence-suckers'
In exchange with God : Christianity in modern Bena
Expect the unexpected : Scientology in Napamogona.
Unexpected actions and strategic exchanges : leadership and economy
In exchange with the world : the concept of person in Bena
Changing exchanges : Bena life cycle rituals
Magical practices and their transformations in modern Bena
Sanguma : the 'essence-suckers'
In exchange with God : Christianity in modern Bena
Expect the unexpected : Scientology in Napamogona.