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Abstract
How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on ‘culture change’, ‘exchange’ and ‘person’ in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.
“This book is a rich ethnography of Bena people in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea and their cultural focus on exchange relationships.” · Sabine C. Hess, Australia National University
Regina Knapp acquired her PhD degree in 2011 at the Australian National University, Canberra. Since her early studies she conducted various research projects in Papua New Guinea.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | 7 | ||
| Maps and Photographs | 8 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 9 | ||
| Abbreviations | 14 | ||
| Introduction — Culture Change and Exchange | 15 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Bena Stories, Histories, and Sociality | 45 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Unexpected Actions and Strategic Exchanges: Leadership, Warfare, and Economy | 78 | ||
| Chapter 3 — In Exchange with the World: The Concept of Person in Bena | 113 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Changing and Exchanging: Head Payments and Life-Cycle Rituals | 138 | ||
| Chapter 5 — Magical Practices and their Transformations in Modern Bena | 176 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Sanguma: The \"Essence-Suckers | 213 | ||
| Chapter 7 — In Exchange with God: Christianity in Modern Bena | 236 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Expect the Unexpected: Scientology in Napamogona | 271 | ||
| Conclusion | 287 | ||
| References | 298 | ||
| Index | 310 |