Exchanging the Past by Bruce M Knauft
This study explores the dramatic change in the world of the Gebusi, a tribe from Papua New Guinea who, for many years had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. With the introduction of modernity; schools, shops and Christianity, these rates plummeted.
Bruce M. Knauft is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He is the author of four previous books, most recently Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology and From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology. His edited volume Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies is currently in press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226446349 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226446344 |
| Title | Exchanging the Past |
| Author | Bruce M Knauft |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 303 |
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