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Author Schram, Ryan, author

Title Harvests, feasts, and graves : postcultural consciousness in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Ryan Schram
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages)
Contents Natives and travelers -- You cannot eat your own blood -- Hunger and plenty -- Banks, books, and pots -- One mind -- The weight of tradition, the children of light
Summary Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the ..
Analysis postcolonial consciousness, Christianity, Oceania, cultural change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2018)
Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Milne Bay Province
Social change -- Papua New Guinea -- Milne Bay Province
Postcolonialism -- Papua New Guinea -- Milne Bay Province
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Postcolonialism
Social change
SUBJECT Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
Subject Papua New Guinea -- Milne Bay Province
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017033044
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