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| - '... clearly written ... challenging.' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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| Description | | - Presents an argument about `modes of religiosity' of interest to scholars in a number of disciplines
- Offers testable hypotheses, based on a particular ethnography but stimulating further enquiry and research
- Clear and precise style makes it accessible to a wide readership
| | Why do initiations in Papua New Guinea often subject novices to violence and terror? Why do some cargo cults lead to regional unity and others to regional divisions? How have features of cognitive processing in missionary Christianity contributed to new forms of identity among Melanesians? The theory of `modes of religiosity' which Whitehouse here develops answers these and a range of other
questions about Melanesia with reference to a set of interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association. Although building his argument on detailed Melanesian ethnography, Whitehouse goes on to suggest that the theory of modes of religiosity may have wider applicability. Thus, in the final two chapters of this book, he explores such
diverse topics as the spread of Reformed Christianity in sixteenth-century Europe, the interpretation of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, the genesis of tribal warfare, and the impact of literacy on social transmission and organization. |
Readership: Social and cultural anthropologists, students of Melanesian culture, psychologists with an interest in memory, historians of the Christian Reformation, archaeologists, political theorists
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Harvey Whitehouse, Reader in the School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast
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