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Auteur(s) : Hirsch, Eric
Titre(s) : Ancestral presence [Texte imprimé] : cosmology and historical experience in the Papuan Highlands / Eric Hirsch
Publication : Abingdon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 238 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Anthropology of history
Lien à la collection : The anthropology of history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also
telling the story of the relation between worlds. For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan
highlands, the past is not 'history' in a conventional sense. For them, the world
and its history derives from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge
cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the 'centre of the world'. But Fuyuge people are part
of another history, too: they have experienced decades of mission and government influence
from centres of power located elsewhere, to which their mountain home is marginal
and remote. Through a detailed exploration of Fuyuge myth, changes to ritual life
and cosmology, Eric Hirsch weaves an account of the relationship between these two
histories. He documents the real changes wrought by colonialism, government and Christianity
from the late nineteenth century to the turn of the millennium. Yet this is not a
story of 'continuity and change'. Hirsch demonstrates how transformation was always
central to Fuyuge life: changes brought by missionaries and government were processes
they themselves initiated in the ancestral past through Tidibe, the cosmological creator
force. Engaging in debates that have been pivotal to Melanesian anthropology, the
book presents an ethnographically rich account of a distinctive world, cosmology and
ideas of historical change. It also raises questions regarding assumptions central
to Western History, its worldview and ideas of historical time"
Sujet(s) : Ethnologie -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Moeurs et coutumes -- Mélanésie
Indice(s) Dewey : 305.800 995 (23e éd.) = Groupes ethniques et nationaux - Mélanésie Nouvelle-Guinée
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367357931. - ISBN 0367357933. - ISBN 9781003131601 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000293869 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000293821 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46675684h
Notice n° :
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