Revisioning the past, remembering the future: Duna accounts of the world's end
Dados Bibliográficos
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AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | The Australian National University |
ANO | 2011 |
TIPO | Book |
CITAÇÕES | 5 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-14 |
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Resumo
Taking as my example, the memories of Duna people at Lake Kopiago, who inhabit the northwestern part of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, I illustrate some of the ways events, and memories of them, have been constructed, manipulated and recast over the last twenty five years. By paying particular attention to a well known originary narrative, I show that space, the revelation of new knowledge via a spirit medium and the reinterpretation and negotiation of the meanings attached to events can result in the production of new memories about the past and the future.