Format:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9781000293869
Series Statement:
The anthropology of history
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on the Text -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue - A Path to Fuda -- Introduction - What Causes Change? -- To an Ossuary -- Indigenous or Foreign -- Causality -- Continuity of Continuous Change -- Alterity and History -- Cosmology and Myth -- What About 'Modernity'? -- Ancestral Presence in a World of Connections -- The Ethnographic Context -- Language and River Valleys -- Homes -- Hode -- Houses -- Kinship and Affinal Terms -- Chapter Summaries -- Part I: Tidibe -- 1. Tidibe as Creator Force -- Cosmic Polities -- True People -- Divine Kings and Consensus -- Prototypes -- Spirits -- Taboo, Boundaries of Skin and Mission Perspectives -- 2. Tidibe as Myth and Mythopoeia -- Making of Myths -- Myths Disclose Origins -- Mythic Distributions and Narrations -- Missionary Tidibe -- Missionary Movements -- In the Colonial Record -- Bilalaf -- Kol's Answer -- Part II: In the Way of Tidibe -- 3. Gab Transforming -- Bowerbird -- Hufife and Aling Tidibe -- Adam and Eve -- Exposure of the Dead -- Exchanges with Missionaries -- Ritual for the Dead -- Supressing Killing -- Transforming Names -- 4. Exchange -- Analogic Units -- Money -- Forms of Exchange -- 5. One Skin -- Initiating Transactions -- Objects of Exchange -- Assembling the Dancers -- Displaying the Betelnut Bunches -- Three Dances -- Maiyam -- Kere -- Dubiti -- Making the Children -- True Pig Killing -- One and Many -- 6. Dance -- Disco -- Two Contrasting Performances -- New Ways -- Concerns About Culture -- Cola Calendar -- Risks to Culture -- Dance as Alterity -- Part III: Centre of the World -- 7. Mission -- Understanding Mission Christianity -- Background History -- Problems of Conversion -- Biblical Transformations -- Cain and Abel -- Gorowat -- Black and White Brothers.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367357931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hirsch, Eric, 1956 - Ancestral presence London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 ISBN 9780367357931
Language:
English
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Ethnologie
