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- catalog abstract ""Encompassing Others is at once a history of the encounter of two cultures and an attempt to challenge theoretically the main concepts that have informed the study of modernity. Going beyond accounts that grasp modernity solely in terms of domination, imperialism, and local resistance, it explores how capitalism, Christianity, and mass commercial culture enchant the senses, create a carnival of new goods, and open up new possibilities for thought and action."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11342470.
- catalog coverage "Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Encompassing Others is at once a history of the encounter of two cultures and an attempt to challenge theoretically the main concepts that have informed the study of modernity. Going beyond accounts that grasp modernity solely in terms of domination, imperialism, and local resistance, it explores how capitalism, Christianity, and mass commercial culture enchant the senses, create a carnival of new goods, and open up new possibilities for thought and action."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (325-336) and index.".
- catalog description "The flight of the cassowary: on subjectivity and encompassment -- In the fields of encompassment: colonialism and the advent of modernity -- The biography of an ethnographer in the age of encompassment -- The modernity of the person in Melanesia -- The logic of sorcery and the justice of modernity -- Money and the representation of life -- The magic of the evangelical -- Traditions of medicine and the miracle of modernity -- Education and the discipline of modernity -- The conclusion of the past and the making of the present.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 342 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Encompassing others.".
- catalog identifier "0472110683 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Encompassing others.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Encompassing others.".
- catalog spatial "Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Jimi River Valley (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Papua New Guinea Jimi River Valley.".
- catalog subject "305.89/912 21".
- catalog subject "Anglicans Missions Papua New Guinea Jimi River Valley.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and culture Papua New Guinea Jimi River Valley.".
- catalog subject "DU740.42 .L566 2000".
- catalog subject "Maring (Papua New Guinean people) Missions.".
- catalog subject "Maring (Papua New Guinean people) Religion.".
- catalog subject "Maring (Papua New Guinean people) Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The flight of the cassowary: on subjectivity and encompassment -- In the fields of encompassment: colonialism and the advent of modernity -- The biography of an ethnographer in the age of encompassment -- The modernity of the person in Melanesia -- The logic of sorcery and the justice of modernity -- Money and the representation of life -- The magic of the evangelical -- Traditions of medicine and the miracle of modernity -- Education and the discipline of modernity -- The conclusion of the past and the making of the present.".
- catalog title "Encompassing others : the magic of modernity in Melanesia / Edward LiPuma.".
- catalog type "text".