Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 201 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJM; HBTB; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227. . 2004. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1349528501
ISBN 13: 9781349528509
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.

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Author Pamela J. Stewart: Pamela J. Stewart is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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