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Culture Change and Ex-Change : Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / Regina Knapp.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 6Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333842
  • 9781785333859
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  • 305.89912 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Note on Foreign Terms -- Introduction: Culture Change and Exchange -- Chapter 1. Bena Stories, Histories, and Sociality -- Chapter 2. Unexpected Actions and Strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy -- Chapter 3. In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena -- Chapter 4. Changing and Exchanging: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals -- Chapter 5. Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena -- Chapter 6. Sanguma: The “Essence-Suckers” -- Chapter 7. In Exchange with God: Christianity in Modern Bena -- Chapter 8. Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Note on Foreign Terms -- Introduction: Culture Change and Exchange -- Chapter 1. Bena Stories, Histories, and Sociality -- Chapter 2. Unexpected Actions and Strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy -- Chapter 3. In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena -- Chapter 4. Changing and Exchanging: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals -- Chapter 5. Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena -- Chapter 6. Sanguma: The “Essence-Suckers” -- Chapter 7. In Exchange with God: Christianity in Modern Bena -- Chapter 8. Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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