Culture Change and Ex-Change : : Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / / Regina Knapp.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 6
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Maps and Photographs --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Abbreviations and Note on Foreign Terms --   |t Introduction: Culture Change and Exchange --   |t Chapter 1. Bena Stories, Histories, and Sociality --   |t Chapter 2. Unexpected Actions and Strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy --   |t Chapter 3. In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena --   |t Chapter 4. Changing and Exchanging: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals --   |t Chapter 5. Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena --   |t Chapter 6. Sanguma: The “Essence-Suckers” --   |t Chapter 7. In Exchange with God: Christianity in Modern Bena --   |t Chapter 8. Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona --   |t Conclusion --   |t References --   |t Index 
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