Title The meaning of whitemen : race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world / Ira Bashkow

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2006] ©2006

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Description xix, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-316) and index Subject Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Ethnic identity. Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology. Orokaiva (Papua New Guinean people) -- Attitudes. Blacks -- Race identity -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province. Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province. Race awareness -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province. SUBJECT Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084373 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552 Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91084373 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 LC no. 2005031375 ISBN 0226038904 cloth alkaline paper 0226038912 paperback alkaline paper

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