Download or read book Empowering the Past Confronting the Future The Duna People of Papua New Guinea written by Andrew J. Strathern and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.
Download or read book Empowering the Past Confronting the Future The Duna People of Papua New Guinea written by Andrew J. Strathern and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.
Download or read book Times Enmeshed written by Gabriele Stürzenhofecker and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the formation of historical consciousness among the Duna people of Papua New Guinea and explores how this is constituted differently for men and women.
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Download or read book Steep Slopes written by Kirsty Gillespie and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time. New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions have been altered or even abandoned. This study shows how, through musical creativity, Duna people maintain a connection with their past, and their identity, whilst simultaneously embracing the challenges of the present.
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Download or read book Remaking the World written by Pamela J. Stewart and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many detailed descriptions of ritual practices that have been abandoned. Remaking the World is a timely contribution to the literature on agency and the making of cultural identity by indigenous peoples facing economic, social, and political change.
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Download or read book Peace Making and the Imagination written by Andrew Strathern and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new book that presents a thoughtful and creative approach to transforming violent discordances, this work examines the intractable issues of revenge and restitution in a conflict context. It argues that in communities where violence must be paid for through compensation, violent conflict can be contained. With primary reference to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and comparisons to cases from Africa, Pakistan, and other arenas of tribal social formations, the account explores how rituals such as wealth disbursement, oath taking, sacrifice, and formal apologies are often used as a means of averting or transcending acts of vengeance after violence. Through exploration of the balance between revenge and compensation at different junctures in the peace-making process, this compelling text devises a thought-provoking and inventive analysis that would benefit countless communities in conflict around the world.
Download or read book Melanesian Studies Newsletter and Accessions List written by University of California, San Diego. Melanesian Studies Resource Center and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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