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The Shark Warrior of Alewai - A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity (Hardcover, New)
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The Shark Warrior of Alewai - A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anthropology Matters, 6
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The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people
of south-eastern Papua New Guinea, The Shark Warrior of Alewai
considers oral histories and Western historical documents that
cover a period of more than 200 years in the light of an
ethnography of contemporary Christianity. Van Heekeren's
phenomenology of Vula'a storytelling reveals how the life of one
man, the Shark Warrior, comes to contain the identity of a people.
Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, she goes on to
establish the essential continuities that underpin the reproduction
of Vula'a identity, and to demonstrate how these give a distinctive
form to Vula'a responses to historical change. In an approach that
brings together the fields of Anthropology, History and Philosophy,
the book questions conventional anthropological categories of
exchange, gender and kinship, as well as the problematic
dichotomization of myth and history, to argue for an anthropology
grounded in ontology.
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