| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 6
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Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 6.
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| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Benabena (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
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Benabena (Papua New Guinean people) |
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Manners and customs. |
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Social change -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province.
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Social change. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province. |
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province.
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Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Ethnology. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Added Title |
Culture change and exchange |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Knapp, Regina. Culture change and ex-change. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785333842 (DLC) 2017019198 |
| ISBN |
9781785333859 (electronic book) |
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1785333852 (electronic book) |
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9781785333842 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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