The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation, and the nature of cultural change /: humiliation, transformation, and the nature of cultural change. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow.
• Other Names: Robbins, Joel, 1961-; Wardlow, Holly
• Contents: Introduction / Joel Robbins -- Economics of develop-man in the Pacific / Marshall Sahlins -- The humiliations of sin : Christianity and the modernization of the subject among the Urapmin / Joel Robbins -- Transformations of desire : envy and resentment among the Huli of Papua New Guinea / Holly Wardlow -- "We are not straight" : Bumbita Arapesh strategies for self-reflection in the face of images of western superiority / Stephen C. Leavitt -- Sepik River selves in a changing modernity : from Sahlins to psychdynamics / Eric Kline Silverman -- "We are all 'les' men" : sorrow and modernism in Melanesia, or, Humor in paradise / Douglas Dalton -- Moral and practical frameworks for the self in conditions of social change / Lisette Josephides -- The death of moka in post-colonial Mount Hagen, highlands, Papua New Guinea / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- On the life and times of the Ipili imagination / Aletta Biersack -- On humiliation and class in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz -- Turning to violence : hazarding intent in central New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Ancestral vigilance and the corrective conscience in Kwaio : kastom as culture in a Melanesian society / David Akin -- Afterword: Frustrating modernity in Melanesia / Robert J. Foster.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 305.8/00995; Ethnology -- Melanesia; Indigenous peoples -- Melanesia; Social change -- Melanesia; Economic development; Ethnopsychology -- Melanesia; Culture and globalization -- Melanesia; Colonization; Culture and globalization; Economic development; Ethnology; Ethnopsychology; Indigenous peoples; Diplomatic relations; Social change; Social conditions; Cultuurverandering; Primitieve volken; Indigenes Volk; Modernisierung; Soziokultureller Wandel; Ethnology -- Melanesia; Indigenous peoples -- Melanesia; Social change -- Melanesia; Economic development; Ethnopsychology -- Melanesia; Culture and globalization -- Melanesia; Melanesia -- Social conditions; Melanesia -- Colonization; Melanesia -- Foreign relations; Melanesia; Melanesien; Melanesia -- Social conditions; Melanesia -- Colonization; Melanesia -- Foreign relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351886215; 1351886215
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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