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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change Book

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change
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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change, Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Processor Marsha, The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change
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  • The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia : Humiliation, Transformation, and the Nature of Cultural Change
  • Written by author Joel Robbins, Holly Wardlow
  • Published by Ashgate, 2005/07/28
  • Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Processor Marsha
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Introduction - humiliation and transformation : Marshall Sahlins and the study of cultural change in Melanesia 3
1 The economics of develop-man in the Pacific 23
2 The humiliations of sin : Christianity and the modernization of the subject among the Urapmin 43
3 Transformations of desire : envy and resentment among the Huli of Papua New Guinea 57
4 'We are not straight' : Bumbita Arapesh strategies for self-reflection in the face of images of Western superiority 73
5 Sepik river selves in a changing modernity : from Sahlins to psychodynamics 85
6 'We are all "Les" men' : sorrow and modernism in Melanesia, or humor in paradise 103
7 Moral and practical frameworks for the self in conditions of social change 115
8 The death of Moka in post-colonial Mount Hagen, Highlands, Papua New Guinea 125
9 On the life and times of the Ipili imagination 135
10 On humiliation and class in contemporary Papua New Guinea 163
11 Turning to violence : hazarding intent in Central New Ireland 171
12 Ancestral vigilance and the corrective conscience in Kwaio : Kastom as culture in a Melanesian society 183
Afterword - frustrating modernity in Melanesia 207


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