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Author Stewart, Pamela J.

Title Remaking the world : myth, mining, and ritual change among the Duna of Papua New Guinea / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
Published Washington ; London : Smithsonian Institution Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xvi, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Contents 1. The Duna and Their Land -- 2. Making and Remaking the World -- 3. Auwi: Stones of Power -- 4. Cults, Local and Regional -- 5. The Female Spirit -- 6. Churches and Change -- 7. Mining and Malu -- 8. Drilling the Giant Landowner -- 9. Myth, Ritual, and History
Summary "Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many detailed descriptions of ritual practices that have been abandoned." "This study offers a timely contribution to the literature on agency and the making of cultural identity by indigenous peoples facing economic, social, and political change."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index
Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Papua New Guinea -- Southern Highlands Province.
Social change -- Papua New Guinea -- Southern Highlands Province.
Duna (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Duna (Papua New Guinean people) -- Land tenure.
Mythology, Duna -- Papua New Guinea -- Southern Highlands Province.
Mines and mineral resources -- Papua New Guinea -- Southern Highlands Province.
SUBJECT Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85235760 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Southern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85235760 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
Author Strathern, Andrew.
LC no. 2001042036
ISBN 1588340120 alkaline paper