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Title: EMPOWERING THE PAST, CONFRONTING THE FUTURE
THE DUNA PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
By: Andrew Strathern, Pamela Stewart
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £71.30


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ISBN 10: 1403982422
ISBN 13: 9781403982421
Publisher: PALGRAVE USA
Pub. date: 12 June, 2004
Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Pages: 208
Description: This book is a new ethnography on the Papua New Guinea Highlands, which uses a case-study approach to consider the role of "tradition" in the politics of adjustment to transnational forces of change.
Synopsis: Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future provides a new analysis of changes in the lifeworlds of the Aluni Valley Duna people living in a remote part of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Influenced by companies mining for gold, cooper, and oil, they have devised ingenious ways to adapt their own myths about the cosmos in order to make claims for compensation and royalty payments. They have also improvised their own responses to the demands of Christian missionaries. The book expands out from this case study, providing a comparative framework for analyzing changes in neighboring societies and a general evaluation of work on the politics of tradition in Pacific societies.
Publication: US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Non-returnable
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