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Encompassing others : the magic of modernity in Melanesia / Edward LiPuma.
LIBRA DU740.42 .L566 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LiPuma, Edward, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Social conditions.
- Maring (Papua New Guinean people).
- Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Missions.
- Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Religion.
- Anglicans--Missions--Papua New Guinea--Jimi River Valley.
- Anglicans.
- Christianity and culture--Papua New Guinea--Jimi River Valley.
- Christianity and culture.
- Missions.
- Religion.
- Social conditions.
- Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea)--Religious life and customs.
- Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea).
- Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Papua New Guinea--Jimi River Valley.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 342 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- The flight of the cassowary: on subjectivity and encompassment
- In the fields of encompassment: colonialism and the advent of modernity
- The biography of an ethnographer in the age of encompassment
- The modernity of the person in Melanesia
- The logic of sorcery and the justice of modernity
- Money and the representation of life
- The magic of the evangelical
- Traditions of medicine and the miracle of modernity
- Education and the discipline of modernity
- The conclusion of the past and the making of the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472110683
- OCLC:
- 43207055
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