The Meaning of Whitemen
Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20028337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ira Bashkow (0000-0002-6757-4135, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 364 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Meaning of Whitemen (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226530062.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4250316513 |
| Open Library | OL51666814M |
| ISBN | 9780226530062 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | fCFBDwAAQBAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 125 |
Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · 305.8009953/09045 · Attitudes · Black People · Blacks · Blacks, race identity · Du740.42 .b375 2006 · Ethnic identity · Ethnopsychology · First contact (Anthropology) · First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners · oro province · Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people) · Orokaiva (papua new guinean people) · Papua new guinea · Psychology · Race awareness · Race identity · race relations · Social conditions
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Roars from the Mountain
The Topology of Endangered Languages
Non-National Bodies in a National Pastime
The Duty to Transform
Artefacts of not-knowing
All the Difference in the World
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From linguistic elicitation to eliciting the linguist
Kenelm O. L. Burridge (1922–2019)
Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific
Money and Other Signifiers
Decolonizing Knowledge Devices
The Ethnographic Hunch
Becoming Witches
Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives
Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making
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The Labour of History
Secret language and resistance to borrowing in Chini
Endangered languages and porous selves
The Clown Within
The Troubled Histories of a Stranger God
Graun i laip (‘Land is Life’)
Transformations of the Sacred in East Timor
Contending Developments
The Sun and the Shakers, Again
Fast Money Schemes Are Risky Business
Difference
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Self‐Lowering as Power and Trap
Rawa-Nore gifting
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands
Working out abjection in the Panapompom bêche‐de‐mer fishery
‘Do you want us to feed you like a baby?’ Ascriptions of dependence in East New Britain
Making Women in the City
Cards on K iriwina
Marijuana, Guns, Crocodiles and Submarines
I sraeli Technicians and the Post‐Colonial Racial Triangle in P apua N ew G uinea
How Asabano Children Learn; or, Formal Schooling amongst Informal Learners
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Securing Modernity
The (Re‐)Appropriation of Spirit Beings – Spirits of the Dead and Spirits of God in a Sepik Community
Notions of (In)Dependence at a Papua New Guinean University
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Mødrehelse som image og valuta
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The Traditions of Race Men
Introduction to Special Issue 'Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea
Children of the palms
Feeling the (post)colonial
The state as a whiteman, the whiteman as a/'hun
Alterity and the Asymmetric Gaze
Divorcing the dead, sharing with Others
Alter(native) Magic
Introduction
Performing Nigerianness
The Indian's White Man
The Otherness of Talk
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The Predicament of Blackness
Hunger in a World without Scarcity
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Healing translations
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Team Spirit
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| Unique citing works | 125 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,46 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 121 |