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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Robbins |
ISBN: | 9780520238008 0520238001 |
OCLC Number: | 699123391 |
Description: | XXVII, 383 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten. |
Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church PART TWO: LIVING IN SIN 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid Notes References Index |
Series Title: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity, 4. |
Responsibility: | Joel Robbins. |
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"Robbins manages, through his ethnography, to illustrate for us the need to understand radical change." Reviews In Anthropology
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