{"product_id":"culture-change-and-ex-change-syncretism-and-anti-syncretism-in-bena-eastern-highlands-papua-new-guinea-9781785333842","title":"Culture Change and Ex-Change: Syncretism and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHow is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on ‘culture change’, ‘exchange’ and ‘person’ in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…this is a well-researched and ethnographically rich book…Readers with an interest in culture change, Melanesian personhood, the anthropology of Christianity, as well as those interested in the recent upsurge in sorcery and witchcraft in Papua New Guinea will find it particularly fascinating.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book is a rich ethnography of Bena people in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea and their cultural focus on exchange relationships.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Sabine C. Hess\u003c\/strong\u003e, Australia National University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tMaps and Photographs\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations ∧ Note on Foreign Terms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Culture Change and Exchange\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eBena Stories, Histories and Sociality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unexpected Actions and strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Changing Exchanges: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSanguma\u003c\/em\u003e: The ‘Essence-Suckers’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Exchange with God: Christianity in modern Bena\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042389885271,"sku":"9781785333842","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785333842.jpg?v=1750954011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-change-and-ex-change-syncretism-and-anti-syncretism-in-bena-eastern-highlands-papua-new-guinea-9781785333842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}