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Constructing regional worlds in experience: Kula exchange, witchcraft and Gawan local events
Man • 25 (1) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 1-17
By: Munn, Nancy D..
Abstract
This article focuses on certain cultural practices "in which spatiotemporally distanced events become meaning horizons of an actor's immediate situation or 'present.'" To illustrate this concept the author uses a single case derived from an interisland [n]kula[/n] transaction which shows how assumptions of witchcraft among Gawans incorporated this event into later local events and relations. In an analysis of the various ways in which events were connected to one another during a six year period, the author suggests a theoretical framework for viewing such historically specific symbolic processes.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2015
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle
- Field Date
- 1973-1975, 1979-1981
- Coverage Date
- 1974-1980
- Coverage Place
- Gawa, Marshall Bennett Islands, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Nancy D. Munn
- LCCN
- sf 80000548
- LCSH
- Massim (Papua New Guinean people)