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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, 2004 ed.) Loot Price: R881

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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, 2004 ed.): Andrew J. Strathern,...

Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, 2004 ed.)

Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart

Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

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"Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future" provides a new analysis of changes in the lifeworlds of the Aluni Valley Duna people living in a remote part of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Influenced by companies mining for gold, cooper, and oil, they have devised ingenious ways to adapt their own myths about the cosmos in order to make claims for compensation and royalty payments. They have also improvised their own responses to the demands of Christian missionaries. The book expands out from this case study, providing a comparative framework for analyzing changes in neighboring societies and a general evaluation of work on the politics of tradition in Pacific societies.

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Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	June 2004
Authors:	Andrew J. Strathern • Pamela J. Stewart
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	190
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6491-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-6491-2
Barcode:	9781403964915