By Regina Knapp
How is cultural swap perceived and played via contributors of the Bena Bena language staff, who stay within the japanese Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her research, Knapp attracts upon present our bodies of labor on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melanesia yet brings them jointly in a brand new manner by means of conjoining conventional types with theoretical ways of the recent Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and opposite anthropology.
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Culture Change and Ex-Change: Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific) by Regina Knapp
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