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Empowering the past, confronting the future : the Duna people of Papua New Guinea / by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .S7683 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strathern, Andrew.
- Series:
- Contemporary anthropology of religion
- Contemporary anthropology of religion.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people)--Social conditions.
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people).
- Social conditions.
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people)--Kinship.
- Kinship.
- Duna (Papua New Guinean people)--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Mythology, Duna--Papua New Guinea--Aluni Region.
- Mythology, Duna.
- Mines and mineral resources--Papua New Guinea--Aluni Region.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Social change--Papua New Guinea--Aluni Region.
- Social change.
- Aluni Region (Papua New Guinea)--History.
- Aluni Region (Papua New Guinea).
- Aluni Region (Papua New Guinea)--Social conditions.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 190 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Houndmills, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- This book is a new ethnography on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, which uses a case-study approach to consider the role of "tradition" in the politics of adjustment to transnational forces of change.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Place and Problem 9
- Chapter 2 Flexible Groups 25
- Chapter 3 Forces of Change 53
- Chapter 4 Leaders and Speech-Making 69
- Chapter 5 Myth, Ritual, and Change 91
- Chapter 6 The Duna in Regional Context 107
- Chapter 7 Concepts of Tradition and Change 121
- Chapter 8 Empowering the Past? 139
- Chapter 9 Change Among the Duna: A Synopsis and Some Wider Implications 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403964904
- 1403964912
- OCLC:
- 53330868
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