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Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 371 marked kula and moka to a new one marked kwikmoni. This book should become required reading for all courses on economic anthropology. CHRIS GREGORY Australian National University chris.gregory@anu.edu.au © 2019 Chris Gregory https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2019.1636346 Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea RYAN SCHRAM Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2018 Harvests, Feasts, and Graves by Ryan Schram bears primarily on the mortuary prac- tices of the Auhelawa people, who reside on the south coast of Normanby Island in the southern Massim, Papua New Guinea. Schram’s focus is on cultural change, how to model it, and how to study it. Given this focus on change, Schram strategically expands the scope of Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring (1989) co-edited by Frederick Damon and Roy Wagner, although, oddly, Carl Thune’s essay on northeast Normanby Island in that collection does not appear in the bibliography. In the past, when an Auhelawa married man died, the widow and her children observed onerous taboos and gave bwabwale prestations of prized yams and a pig to the deceased’s matriline in a show of respect. In return, the deceased’s matriline released http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

Biersack, Aletta
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 20 (4): 3 – Aug 8, 2019
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Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 371 marked kula and moka to a new one marked kwikmoni. This book should become required reading for all courses on economic anthropology. CHRIS GREGORY Australian National University chris.gregory@anu.edu.au © 2019 Chris Gregory https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2019.1636346 Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea RYAN SCHRAM Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2018 Harvests, Feasts,...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2019 Aletta Biersack
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442213.2019.1636345
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 371 marked kula and moka to a new one marked kwikmoni. This book should become required reading for all courses on economic anthropology. CHRIS GREGORY Australian National University chris.gregory@anu.edu.au © 2019 Chris Gregory https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2019.1636346 Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea RYAN SCHRAM Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2018 Harvests, Feasts, and Graves by Ryan Schram bears primarily on the mortuary prac- tices of the Auhelawa people, who reside on the south coast of Normanby Island in the southern Massim, Papua New Guinea. Schram’s focus is on cultural change, how to model it, and how to study it. Given this focus on change, Schram strategically expands the scope of Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring (1989) co-edited by Frederick Damon and Roy Wagner, although, oddly, Carl Thune’s essay on northeast Normanby Island in that collection does not appear in the bibliography. In the past, when an Auhelawa married man died, the widow and her children observed onerous taboos and gave bwabwale prestations of prized yams and a pig to the deceased’s matriline in a show of respect. In return, the deceased’s matriline released

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Published: Aug 8, 2019

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  • Death and Matrilineal Reincorporation on Normanby Island