Encompassing others : the magic of modernity in Melanesia / Edward LiPuma.

Author/creator LiPuma, Edward, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxvi, 342 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Social conditions.
Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Missions.
Maring (Papua New Guinean people)--Religion.
Anglicans--Missions. --Papua New Guinea. --Jimi River Valley.
Christianity and culture--Papua New Guinea. --Jimi River Valley.
Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea)--Religious life and customs.
Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.

Contents The flight of the cassowary: on subjectivity and encompassment -- In the fields of encompassment: colonialism and the advent of modernity -- The biography of an ethnographer in the age of encompassment -- The modernity of the person in Melanesia -- The logic of sorcery and the justice of modernity -- Money and the representation of life -- The magic of the evangelical -- Traditions of medicine and the miracle of modernity -- Education and the discipline of modernity -- The conclusion of the past and the making of the present.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-336) and index.
LCCN 99051001
ISBN0472110683 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DU740.42 .L566 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold