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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 18: Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific

Wardlow, Holly

 
9780754643128: The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754643123 ISBN 13: 9780754643128
Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.

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About the Author

Joel Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754643123
ISBN 13 
9780754643128
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248
Editor
Robbins Joel