Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / Regina Knapp.

By: Knapp, Regina [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 6.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017Description: 1 online resource (313 pages) : color illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781785333859 (e-book)Other title: Culture change and exchangeSubject(s): Benabena (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs | Social change -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Eastern Highlands Province | Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.DDC classification: 305.899/12 LOC classification: DU740.42 | .K517 2017Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Bena stories, histories and sociality -- Unexpected actions and strategic exchanges : leadership and economy -- In exchange with the world : the concept of person in Bena -- Changing exchanges : Bena life cycle rituals -- Magical practices and their transformations in modern Bena -- Sanguma : the 'essence-suckers' -- In exchange with God : Christianity in modern Bena -- Expect the unexpected : Scientology in Napamogona.
Summary: "How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bena stories, histories and sociality -- Unexpected actions and strategic exchanges : leadership and economy -- In exchange with the world : the concept of person in Bena -- Changing exchanges : Bena life cycle rituals -- Magical practices and their transformations in modern Bena -- Sanguma : the 'essence-suckers' -- In exchange with God : Christianity in modern Bena -- Expect the unexpected : Scientology in Napamogona.

"How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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