{"product_id":"melanesian-odysseys-negotiating-the-self-narrative-and-modernity-9781845455255","title":"Melanesian Odysseys: Negotiating the Self,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that people make explicit in their actions and speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from self-externalization rather than self-introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003e…a bold attempt to reshape ethnographic approaches to Melanesia.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The effect is refreshing. The book is written with an immediacy of feeling for place and time and persons... It is a real pleasure to read, its theoretical impetus shot through with insights and aphorisms that can only have come from long reflected-upon ethnographic wisdom. This engaging book will be much debated, and deserves to be.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003eMarilyn Strathern in \u003cb\u003eThe Australian Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"...convincing and empathetic, rich in detail, and clearly based on a lifetime of fieldwork and friendship.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Pacific Affairs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tDramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eOvertures, Ethnographic and Theoretical\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. The Aesthetics of Fieldwork among the Kewa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Style and Tone of Kewa Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBickering, Bantering and Coming to Blows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPlace, Movement and Residential Mobility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDaily Life Scrambling into the Field: Mining the Field and Eliciting Minefields\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Self Strategies: Ascription, Interlocution, Elicitation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Person\/Self\/Individual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAn Archaeology of the Self Ascription: Distinguishing, Co-creating and Merging Self and Other\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Modern History of the Self: Interlocution and Its Denial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Everyday Self: Language and Communication at Issue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWhat Speech Does: Communication as Capability Strategies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tElicitation, Explicitness, Rehearsed and Rehearsing Talk and Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: NARRATIVES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Narrating the Self I: Moral Constructions of the Self as Paradigmatic Accounts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTheories of Narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNarrative and Paradigmatic Thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEthics, Morality and the Self in Paradigmatic Accounts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Storytellers (Wapa, Ragunanu, Pupula, Yakiranu, Payanu) Kewa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPre-contact Practices and Persons: A Narrative of Many Growing up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOf Courtship and Marriage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOf Magic and Gardens Spirit Houses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPig Kills Warfare and Pacification\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusions: Moral Constructions of the Self as Paradigmatic Accounts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Narrating the Self II: Metanarratives of Culture, Self, and Change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Storytellers (Rumbame, Alirapu, Mayanu, Mapi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRumbame’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAlirapu’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMayanu’s Story (Excerpt)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMapi’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMapi: Visionary and Dreamer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFour Features Revisited and Expanded\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCreating Moral Personhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConstructing Coherent Selves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConstructing Critical Metanarratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFacing Modernity and Christianity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Narrating the Self III: The Heroic, the Epic and the Picaresque in a Changed World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Storytellers (Hapkas, Papola, Rimbu, Lari)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Stories: Third Set Hapkas’s (Nasupeli’s) Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPapola’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRimbu’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLari’s Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSeizing the New World: Narrative, Consciousness and Communication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Heroic, the Epic, the Picaresque and the Symbolic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNarrative as Form of Consciousness and Organization of Experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tExperience and Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMorality Narratives as Communication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: PORTRAITS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(Several Weddings, Some Divorces and Three Funerals)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Portraits and Minimal Narratives: Elicitations of Social Reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPortraits, Stories and Minimal Narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tElicitation and Explicitness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLanguage, Talk and Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNorms and Claims: Rehearsed and Rehearsing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTalk and Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Love and All That: Negotiating Marriage and Marital Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCourtship Problems with Bride Price\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIrregular Unions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPolygyny and Conflict\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAinu and Yako\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGiame and Yadi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLari and Rimbu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLiame, Rosa and Kiru\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRarapalu, Karupiri, Foti and Waliya\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNegotiating Marriage and Marital Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLove and All That\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. The Politics of Death\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWho’s the Big Man of Us All?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRake’s Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDuties to Persons, Rights in Persons: Wapa’s Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOut with the Old, in with the New: Payanu’s Death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDeath and Recurring Conflict: Conclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. Mimesis, Ethnography and Knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStories, Ethnography, Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMimesis as a Way of Knowing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEthnography as Difference, Locality and Chronicle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCultural Region and the Tyranny of Theoretical Regionalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEthnography as Chronicle of Cultural History\/History of Consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042978791767,"sku":"9781845455255","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455255.jpg?v=1750956497","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/melanesian-odysseys-negotiating-the-self-narrative-and-modernity-9781845455255","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}