Culture Change and Ex-Change

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-384-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knapp, Regina

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maps and Photographs

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations &and Note on Foreign Terms

Introduction: Culture Change and Exchange

Chapter 1. Bena Stories, Histories and Sociality

Chapter 2. Unexpected Actions and strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy

Chapter 3. In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena

Chapter 4. Changing Exchanges: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals

Chapter 5. Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena

Chapter 6. Sanguma: The ‘Essence-Suckers’

Chapter 7. In Exchange with God: Christianity in modern Bena

Chapter 8. Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Knapp, Regina
Regina Knapp acquired her PhD degree in 2011 at the Australian National University, Canberra. Since her early studies she conducted various research projects in Papua New Guinea.