Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond
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ethical anthropology
F. G. Bailey
Frederick Errington
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indigenous moral systems
Joel Robbins
John Barker
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Min People
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moral dilemmas in Papua New Guinea
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
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postcolonial ethics
Ramu Sugar
Rawa People
Rawa Speakers
Robert Tonkinson
Roger Ivar Lohmann
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- ISBN 9780754671855
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond 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 that exemplify key ethical contradictions for members of moral communities. While returning to some classical concerns, such as the roles of big men and sorcerers, the book opens new territory with richly textured ethnographic studies and theoretical reviews that explore the interface between the values associated with indigenous village life and the ethical orientations associated with Christianity, the state, the marketplace, and other facets of ’modernity'. A major contribution to the emerging field of the anthropology of morality, the volume includes some of the most prominent scholars working in the discipline today, including Bruce Knauft, Joel Robbins, F.G. Bailey, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.
John Barker is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published extensively on the history of Christian missionaries and contemporary indigenous Christianity in Oceania and British Columbia, including the edited book, Christianity in Oceania (1990). His most recent book is Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest (2007).
