Regina Knapp

Culture Change and Ex-Change (eBook, ePUB)

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785333859
• Artikelnr.: 49046890

Autorenporträt

Regina Knapp acquired her PhD degree in 2011 at the Australian National University, Canberra. Since her early studies she conducted various research projects in Papua New Guinea.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Exchanges: 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