Author: Josephides
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: modernity, narrative, negotiating, odysseys, melanesian
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845455258
ISBN-13: 9781845455255

In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that peop