Common Worlds and Single Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies
Redaktion: Keck, Verena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323900
• Artikelnr.: 60032180

Autorenporträt

Verena Keck Institute of Ethnology,University of Heidelberg

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Verena Keck, Introduction
Part One: Prologue
Sir Raymond Firth, Reflections on Knowledge in an Oceanic Setting
Part Two: Embodied Personhood
Borut Telban, Body, Being and Identity in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea
Andree Grau, On the Acquisition of Knowledge: Teaching Kinship through the body among the Tiwi of Northern Australia
Christina Toren, Cannibalism and Compassion: Transformations in Fijian Notions of the Person
Part Three: Changing Life Histories
Andrew Strathern, A Turn of the Rope: Two Life
Histories from Mount Hagen
Lisette Josephides, Kewa Portraits: A Different Kind of Biography
Part Four: Local Recasting of Christianity
Anna Paini, HMI Samoa and HMI Oui
oui: Local Recasting of Christianity by Lifuans (Loyalty Islands)
Monique Jeudy
Ballini, Appropriating the Other: A Case study from New Britain
Part Five: Experiencing Outside Worlds
Ronald Adams, Tannese Cultural Journeys
Allen Abramson, The Articulation of Property and Non
Property Relations in Land in the Interior of 'Big Fiji': The Fate of the Particularising Relation
Elfriede Hermann, Deeply Felt Knowledge: Integrating Thoughts and Emotions in Knowing the Past
Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk, Responses of Kwanga Women to Intrusion into the Female Realm
Beatriz Moral, Chuukese Women's Status: Traditional and Modern Elements
Part Six: Appropriating New Forms of Knowledge
Pierre Lemonnier, Showing the Invisible. Violence and Politics among the Ankave
Anga (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea)
Milan Stanek & Florence Weiss, Big Man and Big Woman in the Village
Elite in the Town
Erik Venbrux, Why do the Tiwi want a New Township? A Case Study of Australian Aboriginal Brokers and the Politics of 'Development'
Barbara Lüem, Tinpis Running in Tuvalu: Reactions to Video as a New Medium: A Case Study
Ingjerd Hoem, Staging a Political Challenge: The Story of Tokelau Te Ata
Part Seven: Epilogue
Marilyn Strathern, The New Modernities