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| Author | : Lisette Josephides |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781845455255 |
"In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : John LeRoy |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780774802185 |
A Papua New Guinea Highland people, the Kewa have within their vital oral tradition a rich body of folk tales, eighty of which are brought together in this volume. Like many folk tales, the stories are made up of elements which recur in different variations and combinations. LeRoy has classified and numbered the various episodes and prepared a synoptic guide to aid in the reading of the tales. Using the guide, the reader can follow a particular episode from one tale to another.
| Author | : Holger Jebens |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781845450052 |
Based around the case study of a single village in Papua New Guinea, 'Pathways to Heaven' examines the tensions, antagonisms and outright confrontations that can occur within local Christian communities upon the arrival of global versions of fundamentalism.
| Author | : Verena Keck |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2020-08-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000323900 |
In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about nature, plants and animals is vanishing. However, in parallel with this, the people of the Pacific are confronted with new modes of knowledge and newly introduced technologies through imported educational systems, missions of various denominations, and the media. They do not passively assimilate this knowledge but adopt, adapt, and apply it in a syncretistic way.These changes will have permanent effects on the individual lives of people in the region and their knowledge about themselves and their surrounding 'world'. This stimulating book tracks the course of these developments and offers revealing insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.
| Author | : Garry Trompf |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 721 |
| Release | : 2006-09-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1567206662 |
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
| Author | : G. W. Trompf |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 1994-07-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521416914 |
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : English language |
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| Author | : John D. LeRoy |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The meaning and mechanics of myth have been of constant concern inscholarship. Tales and legends challenge us to find a sense and purposeconcealed in their apparent nonsense and that challenge is met in thiscompanion volume to Kewa Tales. Describing eighty tales, theauthor explains how they are fabricated from recurrent narrativesequences, logical structures, and aesthetic metaphors. To do so, hedraws on the formalism of Propp, the structuralism of Levi-Strauss, andwritings on poetics and metaphor. But, holding tales to be mirrors ormodels for daily life, he also demonstrates an intimate connectionbetween narrative structure and ethnographic settings.
| Author | : Kathleen Ragan |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2000-05-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393285871 |
One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman.
| Author | : J. Gottschall |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2008-09-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230615597 |
Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
