The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation And the Nature of Cultural Change (ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL HISTORY IN ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC) - Hardcover

Wardlow, Holly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754643123 ISBN 13: 9780754643128

Verlag: Routledge, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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 Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.

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Joel Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0754643123
• ISBN 13: 9780754643128
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Robbins Joel
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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