| Description |
xxvii, 383 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4 |
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Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4
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| Contents |
Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People -- Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change -- Pt. 1. The Making of a Christian Community -- 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period -- 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations -- 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church -- Pt. 2. Living in Sin -- 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space -- 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality -- 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality -- 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self -- 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values -- Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Papua New Guinea -- Urapmin.
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| SUBJECT |
Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003093211 -- Religious life and customs.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603
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| LC no. |
2003006767 |
| ISBN |
0520238001 |
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0520237994 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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