| Description |
xv, 490 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: On the Representation of Manam Society -- Pt. I. Zaria's Fire: Representations of Gender and Place. Ch. 1. Black Sand and Red Fire. Ch. 2. Wedgwood On Manam -- Pt. II. The Tanepoa Labalaba: Representations of Personhood and Power. Ch. 3. Laboring Bodies. Ch. 4. Gendered Bodies. Ch. 5. Constituting Social Bodies. Ch. 6. The Tanepoa's Body. Ch. 7. "Consuming" the Tanepoa's Body -- Pt. III. The Two Brothers: Representations of History. Ch. 8. Bisnis, "Cargo" and Christianity. Ch. 9. Momboa and Liboaboa Revisited. Ch. 10. Wedgwood Revisited |
| Summary |
The author skillfully interweaves the voices of three generations of Manam Islanders with those of two women anthropologists who lived and worked among them - one British, a member of England's intellectual aristocracy, the other, a middle-class American - to create a multivocal, cross-cultural conversation about men and women, power and authority, and colonialism and post-colonialism in Papua New Guinea. Using unpublished diaries, notebooks, and photographs from 1930s anthropologist Camilla Wedgwood, juxtaposed with her own contemporary field material and that of government officials, Catholic missionaries, and local scholars, the author contrasts her narrative of Manam cultural resilience with Wedgwood's story of demoralization and inevitable cultural disintegration. [publisher] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-475) and index |
| Subject |
Wedgwood, Camilla H. (Camilla Hildegarde), 1901-1955.
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Manam Island.
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Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Manam Island.
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Manam Island (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010493 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Manam Island (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010493 -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029
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Manam Island (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010493 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| LC no. |
95068695 |
| ISBN |
0890898006 |
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