The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature...
The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature...
The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change / edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow.
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Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
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305.80099/12
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 227 p. ; 24 cm.
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 Ward...
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Publisher
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
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England
Date Published
c2005.
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Summary
"Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Processor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relations...
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The making of global and local modernities in Melanesia : humiliation, transformation and the nature of cultural change / edited by Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow.
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Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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305.80099/12
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74VKPyNAB4N3
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ISBN
0754643123
9780754643128
DDC
306.0995
MMS ID
991019764279702626
