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Embodying modernity and postmodernity : ritual, praxis, and social change in Melanesia / edited by Sandra Bamford.

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Series: Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographsPublication details: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.Description: xxi, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0890894760
9780890894767

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Summary: This collection of original essays critically examines the relationship between ritual, embodiment, and social change in the South Pacific. Over the past few decades, the societies of Melanesia have undergone profound and revolutionary social change. Encounters with colonialism, postcolonialism, and the forces of globalization have put indigenous peoples in touch with processes of state formation, late capitalist culture, and the emergence of a complex network of transnational identities. In addition to shaping the contours of the nation state, these developments are having a profound impact on the nature of embodied experience. In recent years, many Melanesian societies have witnessed the rise of charismatic Christianity, changing gender configurations, and the growing use of consumerism as a means of defining new social and political hierarchies. This book provides detailed analyses of those social changes that are becoming part of contemporary Melanesia.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Main Collection	John Kinder Theological Library	GT497.M45 EMB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		J0089509X

"Many of the chapters in this collection were first presented in a session at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 1999"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

This collection of original essays critically examines the relationship between ritual, embodiment, and social change in the South Pacific. Over the past few decades, the societies of Melanesia have undergone profound and revolutionary social change. Encounters with colonialism, postcolonialism, and the forces of globalization have put indigenous peoples in touch with processes of state formation, late capitalist culture, and the emergence of a complex network of transnational identities. In addition to shaping the contours of the nation state, these developments are having a profound impact on the nature of embodied experience. In recent years, many Melanesian societies have witnessed the rise of charismatic Christianity, changing gender configurations, and the growing use of consumerism as a means of defining new social and political hierarchies. This book provides detailed analyses of those social changes that are becoming part of contemporary Melanesia.