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Format: xiii, 253 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781501710995 , 9781501711008 , 9781501711022

Content: Natives and travelers -- You cannot eat your own blood -- Hunger and plenty -- Banks, books, and pots -- One mind -- The weight of tradition, the children of light

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781501711022

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schram, Ryan, author Harvests, feasts, and graves Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schram, Ryan Harvests, feasts, and graves Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781501711015

Language: English

Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea ; Postkolonialismus ; Indigenes Volk ; Ethnologie ; Sozialer Wandel

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Format: 1 online resource : , 7 b&w halftones, 3 maps

ISBN: 9781501711015

Content: Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the "ontological turn" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness.Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Walo Velau -- , Note on Orthography -- , Introduction -- , 1. Natives and Travelers -- , 2. You Cannot Eat Your Own Blood -- , 3. Hunger and Plenty -- , 4. Banks, Books, and Pots -- , 5. One Mind -- , 6. The Weight of Tradition, the Children of Light -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501711015

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501711015

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Format: 1 online resource (272 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9781501711015 (e-book)

Note: Natives and travelers -- You cannot eat your own blood -- Hunger and plenty -- Banks, books, and pots -- One mind -- The weight of tradition, the children of light.

Additional Edition: Print version: Schram, Ryan. Harvests, feasts, and graves : postcultural consciousness in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781501710995

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-5017-1100-8 , 1-5017-1101-6

Content: Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the "ontological turn" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness.Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.

Note: Natives and travelers -- You cannot eat your own blood -- Hunger and plenty -- Banks, books, and pots -- One mind -- The weight of tradition, the children of light. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1102-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-5017-1099-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501711015