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1、EMPOWERINGTHEPAST,CONFRONTINGTHEFUTURECONTEMPORARYANTHROPOLOGYOFRELIGIONAseriespublishedwiththeSocietyfortheAnthropologyofReligionRobertHefner,SeriesEditorBostonUniversityPublishedbyPalgraveMacmillanBody/Meaning/HealingByThomasJ.CsordasTheWeightofthePast:LivingwithHistoryinMahajanga,Madaga
2、scarByMichaelLambekEmpoweringthePast,ConfrontingtheFutureByAndrewStrathernandPamelaJ.StewartAdvancePraiseforEmpoweringthePast,ConfrontingtheFuture:“Theauthors’familiaritywithandextensivepublicationsonDunacultureandsocietyprovidea‘sufficientethnography’fromwhichemergesthisnuancedaccountofth
3、eforcesofchangeinacontemporaryPapuaNewGuineansociety.Thisethnographyuncommonlyprivilegesthereaderwithinsightsintothechoices,andtheiroftenunintendedconsequences,madebyDunamenandwomenastheygrapplewithtraditionthatisnotfixedbutconstantlyshifting,andmodernitythatispluralizingratherthanhomogeni
4、z-ing.Theauthorscapturethetexture,ironies,andcomplexitiesofDunasoci-etywhilecriticallychallengingtheideaof‘modernity’asameta-narrativeandexplanatoryconceptinanthropologyandthesocialsciencesgenerally.Highlyrecommended.”—NaomiMcPherson,ChairofDepartmentofAnthropology,OkanaganUniversityColleg
5、e,Kelowna,Canada“ThisaccessiblywrittenbookisaverywelcomeadditiontotheliteratureonthePapuaNewGuineahighlands.Itisrefreshinglyfreeofjargon,writteninahighlyreadablestyle,and,drawingontheauthors’enormousfundofexpe-rience,evidencingconsiderableanthropologicaldepthandawareness.Thefocusisonissues
6、ofchangeandthebookadoptsacommonsenseperspectivebalancingbetweenthetimelessideasoftradition—seennotasstaticbutaconstantlyshiftingperspective—andmodernity—seennotasglobalizingsim-ilaritiesbutasapluralizingprocess.IthasaparticularinterestinritualresponsestochangethatareprominentinDunaculture,
7、presentingsomefas-cinatingethnographyontheseissues.ThebookwillalsoappealtothoseinterestedinideasabouttheconstitutionofhighlandNewGuineasocialgroups,fromtheearlydebateontherelevanceofAfricanmodels—adebatetowhichoneoftheauthorsmadeprominentcontributions—totoday’
