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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

By Holly Wardlow

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Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying an...Show more

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9780815347453

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Taylor & Francis Inc

Published year

2017

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1

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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

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