Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

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Pamela J. Stewart Andrew Strathern

Remaking the World

Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern

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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
15 September 2014

Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many detailed descriptions of ritual practices that have been abandoned. Remaking the World is a timely contribution to the literature on agency and the making of cultural identity by indigenous peoples facing economic, social, and political change.

By: Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern
Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9781935623618
ISBN 10: 1935623613
Series: Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry
Pages: 235
Publication Date: 15 September 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pamela J. Stewart is coauthor of Collaborations and Conflicts- A Leader Through Time (1999) and a research associate in the department of anthropology and the department of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrew Strathern is coauthor of Arrow Talk- Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History (2000) and is Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.