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976968
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b731338
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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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Aldershot ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2005.
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| Series Statement
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Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
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xiv, 227 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0754643123
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: 9780754643128
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"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 relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies.
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Also presenting one of Sahlins; less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea."--Jacket.
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Sahlins, Marshall ,1930-
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Culture and globalization-- Melanesia.
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Economic development.
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Ethnology-- Melanesia.
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Ethnopsychology-- Melanesia.
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Indigenous peoples-- Melanesia.
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Social change-- Melanesia.
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73.06 ethnography.
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73.06 ethnography.
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Colonization.
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Culture and globalization-- Melanesia.
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Culture and globalization.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Economic development.
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Economic development.
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Ethnology-- Melanesia.
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Ethnology.
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Ethnopsychology-- Melanesia.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Indigenes Volk
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Indigenous peoples-- Melanesia.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Modernisierung
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Social change-- Melanesia.
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Social change.
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Social conditions
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Soziokultureller Wandel
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Cultuurverandering.
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Primitieve volken.
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Melanesia, Colonization.
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Melanesia, Foreign relations.
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Melanesia, Social conditions.
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Melanesia, Colonization.
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Melanesia, Foreign relations.
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Melanesia, Social conditions.
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Melanesia.
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Melanesien
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8/00995
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| LC Classification
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GN668.M35 2005
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73.06bcl
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73.06.bcl
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D766.00clc
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D766.00clc.
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| Added Entry
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Robbins, Joel,1961-
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Wardlow, Holly.
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