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The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world
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- Creator
- Ira Bashkow
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xix, 329 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226038902, 0226038904, 9780226038919, 0226038912
- OCLC
- ocm62281609
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-316) and index.
- Introduction: the cultural construction of whitemen -- Cultural world, postcolonial situation -- The lightness of whitemen -- The bodies of whitemen -- The foods of whitemen -- Conclusion: Whitemen beyond
Subjects
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnic identity.
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology.
- Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Attitudes.
- Black people -- Race identity -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.
- First contact (Anthropology) -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.
- Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.
- Race awareness -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.
- Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Race relations.
- Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions.