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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

By Andrew Strathern , Pamela Stewart

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9781403964908, 1403964904, 9781403982421
LCC
DU740.42 .S7683 2004
Open Library ID
OL22597936M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1326755 bytes)
Pages
208\203
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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