Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
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 e
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| Library of Congress |
Duna (Papua New Guinea people), Social change, Papua New Guinea |
| NBS Text |
Social Studies: General |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
219 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 163mm
Height: 235mm
Spine: 21mm |
| Weight |
531g |
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| Dewey Code |
291.1309953 |
| Catalogue Code |
88964 |
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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 e
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Author's Bio
Pamela J. Stewart is co-author of Collaborations and Conflicts: A Leader Through Time (1999) and a research associate in the department of anthropology and the department of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrew Strathern is co-author of Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History (2000) and is Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
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