Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

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

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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.

Author Biography:

Author Pamela J. Stewart: Pamela J. Stewart is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Release date Australia

August 24th, 2004

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Professional & Vocational

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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004

Illustrations

17 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 190 p. 17 illus.

Pages

190

Series

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Dimensions

127x203x11

ISBN-13

9781349528509

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25413641

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