Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / Regina Knapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knapp, Regina, author.

Series:

Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 6.

Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benabena (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.

Benabena (Papua New Guinean people).

Social change--Papua New Guinea--Eastern Highlands Province.

Social change.

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Eastern Highlands Province.

Ethnology.

Manners and customs.

Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.

Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea--Eastern Highlands Province.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Culture change and exchange

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Knapp, Regina, author. Culture change and ex-change

ISBN:

9781785333842

1785333844

OCLC:

986993648