The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia
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Download or read book The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia written by Joel Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 Turning to Violence: Hazarding Intent in Central New Ireland -- 12 Ancestral Vigilance and the Corrective Conscience in Kwaio: Kastom as Culture in a Melanesian Society -- Afterword - Frustrating Modernity in Melanesia -- Index


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