“…this is a well-researched and ethnographically rich book…Readers with an interest in culture change, Melanesian personhood, the anthropology of Christianity, as well as those interested in the recent upsurge in sorcery and witchcraft in Papua New Guinea will find it particularly fascinating.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This book is a rich ethnography of Bena people in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea and their cultural focus on exchange relationships.” • Sabine C. Hess, Australia National University

How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on ‘culture change’, ‘exchange’ and ‘person’ in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.

Series: Volume 6, Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: DU740.42 .K517 2017

BL: DRT ELD.DS.176752

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; REL000000 RELIGION/General

BIC: JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; JFC Cultural studies