Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern

Sacred Revenge in Oceania

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores revenge as a motivation relating to conflict and violence, specifically within Oceania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 85g
• ISBN-13: 9781108717328
• ISBN-10: 1108717322
• Artikelnr.: 54552240

Autorenporträt

Pamela J. Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her books include Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2005) and Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Bellona Island; 'Payback', and its cosmic implications; Revenge and sorcery-divination; The genesis of exchange
Mount Hagen; Historical complications in the revenge complex; Peace-making in Hagen
A Reprise in Ongka's Account; Maring and Melpa
from elementary to complex structures; Variant ontologies
extensions of the model of sacred revenge; Structures in history
The Enga; Envoi: gifts and violence; Broader contexts; Some ending thoughts.