Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Andrew J. Strathern • Pamela J. Stewart
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	190
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-52850-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-349-52850-1
Barcode:	9781349528509

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