The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and BeyondJohn Barker This book examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. Taking Kenelm Burridge's seminal work as their starting point, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people exemplifying key ethical contradictions for members of moral communities. |
Contents
Introduction The Anthropological Study of Morality in Melanesia | 1 |
MORAL EXEMPLARS IN VILLAGE SOCIETY | 23 |
Morality Politics and the Melanesian Big Man On The Melanesian Manager and the Transformation of Political Anthropology | 25 |
When is it Moral to be a Sorcerer? | 39 |
THE MORALITY OF MODERNITY | 57 |
Moral Exchange and Exchanging Morals Alternative Paths of Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea | 59 |
All Sides Now The Postcolonial Triangle in Uiaku | 75 |
Reconfiguring Amity at Ramu Sugar Limited | 93 |
Morals and Missionary Positionality Diyos of Duranmin | 131 |
In the Way in Melanesia Modernity and the New Woman in Papua New Guinea as Catholic Missionary Sister | 149 |
BEYOND MELANESIA | 169 |
Homo Anthropologicus in Aboriginal Australia Secular Missionaries Christians and Morality in the Field | 171 |
Reaching for the Absolute | 191 |
Epilogue | 209 |
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NEW MEN AND NEW WOMEN | 111 |
Changing Minds Hysteria and the History of Spirit Mediumship in Telefolmin | 113 |
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