The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barker, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together some of the most prominent scholars working in the anthropology of morality, this volume examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. While returning to some classical concerns, the book opens new territory with studies exploring the interface between values associated with indigenous village life and ethical orientations associated with Christianity, the state, the marketplace, and other facets of 'modernity'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317044970
• Artikelnr.: 44873171

Autorenporträt

John Barker is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published extensively on the history of Christian missionaries and contemporary indigenous Christianity in Oceania and British Columbia, including the edited book, Christianity in Oceania (1990). His most recent book is Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the anthropological study of morality in Melanesia,
John Barker; Part I Moral Exemplars in Village Society: Morality, politics
and the Melanesian big man: on The Melanesian Manager and the
transformation of political anthropology, Joel Robbins; When is it moral to
be a sorcerer?, Doug Dalton. Part II The Morality of Modernity: Moral
exchange and exchanging morals: alternative paths of cultural change in
Papua New Guinea, Bruce M. Knauft; All sides now: the postcolonial triangle
in Uiaku, John Barker; Reconfiguring amity at Ramu Sugar Ltd, Frederick
Errington and Deborah Gewertz. Part III New Men and New Women: Changing
minds : hysteria and the history of spirit mediumship in Telefolmin, Dan
Jorgensen; Morals and missionary positionality: Diyos of Duranmin, Roger
Ivar Lohmann; 'In the way' in Melanesia: modernity and the new woman in
Papua New Guinea as Catholic missionary sister, Nancy C. Lutkehaus. Part IV
Beyond Melanesia: Homo anthropologicus in aboriginal Australia: 'secular
missionaries', Christians and morality in the field, Robert Tonkinson;
Reaching for the absolute, F.G. Bailey; Epilogue, Kenelm Burridge;
Bibliography; Index.