Melanesian odysseys : negotiating the self, narrative and modernity /

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"In 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 worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Josephides, Lisette (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Temas:
Kewa (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs.
Kewa (Papua New Guinean people) > Psychology.
Oral tradition > Papua New Guinea.
Identity (Psychology) > Papua New Guinea.
Kewa (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Kewa (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Psychologie.
Tradition orale > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Identité (Psychologie) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Identity (Psychology)
Manners and customs.
Oral tradition.
Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
Papua New Guinea.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aesthetics of fieldwork among the Kewa
  • Self strategies : ascription, interlocution, elicitation
  • Narrating the self I : moral constructions of the self as paradigmatic accounts
  • Narrating the self II : metanarratives of culture, self, and change
  • Narrating the self III : the heroic, the epic and the picaresque in a changed world
  • Portraits and minimal narratives : elicitations of social reality
  • Love and all that : negotiating marriage and marital life
  • Politics of death
  • Mimesis, ethnography and knowledge.

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