Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands

ISBN-13: 9780367684914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 238 str.

Eric Hirsch

Opis

Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.

 

Recenzje

"Ancestral Presence is a rich, insightful, and enjoyable ethnography, and Hirsch makes important contributions to the field. By showing how continuity and change are not necessarily mutually exclusive, Hirsch meaningfully intervenes in key ongoing debates within the anthropology of Melanesia. [...] This book merits a wide audience." - Dario Di Rosa in Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Prologue: A Path to Fuda; Introduction: What Causes Change?; Part I: Tidibe; 1.Tidibe as Creator Force; 2. Tidibe as Myth and Mythopoeia; Part II: In the Way of Tidibe; 3. Gab Transforming; 4. Exchange; 5. One Skin; 6. Dance; Part III: Centre of the World; 7. Mission; 8. Market; 9. Law; Conclusion: History and Tidibe: A Symmetical Inversion

O autorze

Eric Hirsch is Reader in Anthropology at Brunel University London. He has a longstanding interest in the anthropology and history of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia more generally. His most recent publication is The Melanesian World (co-edited with Will Rollason), Routledge, 2019.