The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change / edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow
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- 3561702
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- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005
- xiv, 227 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0754643123
- Series:
- Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Joel Robbins
- Economics of develop-man in the Pacific / Marshall Sahlins
- The humiliations of sin : Christianity and the modernization of the subject among the Urapmin / Joel Robbins
- Transformations of desire : envy and resentment among the Huli of Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow
- "We are not straight" : Bumbita Arapesh strategies for self-reflection in the face of western superiority / Stephan C. Leavitt
- Sepik River selves in a changing modernity : Sahlins, schismogensis, and psychdynamic desire / Eric Silverman
- "We are all 'les' men" : sorrow and modernism in Melanesia, or, Humor in paradise / Doug Dalton
- Moral and practical frameworks for the self in conditions of social change / Lisette Josephides
- The death of moka and polygamy in post-colonial highlands, Papua New Guinea / Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern
- On the life and times of the Ipili imagination / Aletta Biersack
- On humiliation and class in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz
- Turning to violence : hazarding intent in central New Ireland / Karen Sykes
- Ancestral vigilance and the corrective conscience in Kwaio, Solomon Islands / David Akin
- Afterword: Frustrating modernity in Melanesia / Robert Foster.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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