Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea by Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Australian & Oceanian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
  3. Contents
  4. List of Photos
  5. List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 Place and Problem
  9. Chapter 2 Flexible Groups
  10. Chapter 3 Forces of Change
  11. Chapter 4 Leaders and Speech-Making
  12. Chapter 5 Myth, Ritual, and Change
  13. Chapter 6 The Duna in Regional Context
  14. Chapter 7 Concepts of Tradition and Change
  15. Chapter 8 Empowering the Past?
  16. Chapter 9 Change Among the Duna: A Synopsis and Some Wider Implications
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. About the Authors
  20. Index