Remaking the World Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

by Stewart, Pamela J.; Strathern, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781588340122
• ISBN10: 1588340120
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

Summary

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many detailed descriptions of ritual practices that have been abandoned.

Author Biography

Andrew Strathern is Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
The Duna and Their Land	1	(20)
Making and Remarking the World	21	(26)
AUWI: Stones of Power	47	(22)
Cults, Local and Regional	69	(24)
The Female Spirit	93	(18)
Churches and Change	111	(24)
Mining and Malu	135	(16)
Drilling the Giant Landowner	151	(22)
Myth, Ritual, and History	173	(18)
Notes	191	(4)
Glossary	195	(4)
References	199	(12)
Index	211