"The book will be of value to those who study the religions of
Oceania and those who are concerned with missions and local
Christianities." . Anthropos
"What Jebens has provided us on the whole, is a densely-knit and
fascinating study, which will be of interest to all scholars of
religion and social change in the Oceanic and Asiatic regions. His
anthropological perspective illuminates areas of the everyday
practice of faith and the working out of religious conflict that
would not be accessible to us otherwise." . Asian Journal of Social
Science
"Here, finally, is a book that realizes on a grand scale the
long-held promise that the study of cargo cults can teach us as
much about anthropology as about the Melanesians who participate in
them... this is the book to bring the study of cargo cults into the
twentieth-first century. It should join those classics in being
widely read and broadly influential." . Joel Robbins, University of
California, San Diego
In many parts of the world the "white man" is perceived to be an
instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity.
However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the
actual heterogeneity and complexity of "whiteness" in specific
ethnographic contexts. This study examines cultural perceptions of
other and self as expressed in cargo cults and masked dances in
Papua New Guinea. Indigenous terms, images, and concepts are being
contrasted with their western counterparts, the latter partly
deriving from the publications and field notes of Charles
Valentine. After having done his first fieldwork more than fifty
years ago, this "anthropological ancestor" has now become part of
the local tradition and has thus turned into a kind of mythical
figure. Based on anthropological fieldwork as well as on archival
studies, this book addresses the relation between western and
indigenous perceptions of self and other, between "tradition" and
"modernity," and between anthropological "ancestors" and
"descendants." In this way the work contributes to the study of
"whiteness," "cargo cults" and masked dances in Papua New
Guinea.
Holger Jebens is a Research Fellow at the Frobenius Institute
and has been Managing Editor of Paideuma since 1998. He was
Theodor-Heuss Lecturer at the New School of Social Research and
spent many years doing fieldwork in highland and seaboard Papua New
Guinea. His publications include Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
(Hawai'i University Press, 2004), and Pathways to Heaven (Berghahn
Books, 2005)."
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