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Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the "ontological turn" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness.Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.

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History of Asia

Comparative religion

Sociologie, société et politique

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501711015
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Harvests,Feasts,andGraves

Harvests,Feasts,and Graves

PostculturalConsciousnessinContemporary Papua New Guinea

RyanSchram

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

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Firstpublished2018byCornellUniversityPress

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Names: Schram, Ryan, author. Title:Harvests,feasts,andgraves:postculturalconsciousnessincontemporary Papua New Guinea / Ryan Schram. Description:Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,2018.|Includesbibliographical references and index. Identiers:LCCN2017027638(print)|LCCN2017033044(ebook)|ISBN 9781501711022 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501711015 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501710995 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501711008 (pbk.: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: EthnologyPapua New GuineaMilne Bay Province. | Social changePapua New GuineaMilne Bay Province. | PostcolonialismPapua New GuineaMilne Bay Province. | Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea)Social life and customs. Classication:LCCGN671.N5(ebook)|LCCGN671.N5S362018(print) | DDC 303.409953dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017027638

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Cover photo by Ryan Schram, 2006

aligehao vehabadi. Teina buʻi yagu w Ryan Alexander, Ryan Jack David, yagu velau alimiyai. Yauwedo.

(This book is for my namesakes. Ryan Alexander, Ryan Jack David, my love to you. Thank you.)

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WaloVelau

NoteonOrthography

Introduction

1.NativesandTravelers

2.YouCannotEatYourOwnBlood

3.HungerandPlenty

4.Banks,Books,andPots

5.OneMind

6.TheWeightofTradition,theChildrenofLight

Conclusion

Notes

References

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Maps1. Papua New Guinea and its region2. The location of Auhelawa within Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea3. Some of the villages in Kurada Ward, Normanby Island

Figures1. Lucy Pade sewing sago palm leaves to make roof thatch (atovi) in 20062. Noeline and baby Caleb in New Home in 20063. A new yam garden and yam house above New Home Village in January 20064. Representatives of each side count the donations at the pottopot held at Wadaheya Village on August 31, 20045. Francis Pade aftertapwaloloat St. Peters Catholic Church in Mwademwadewa Village in 20066. The path leading up to Hegahegai Point, the original site of the Methodist mission at Bunama7. Opa Haimanu leaves the Sowala United Church after Sundaytapwaloloon November 12, 2006

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