{"product_id":"harvests-feasts-and-graves-ryan-schram-9781501711008","title":"Harvests, Feasts, and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvests, Feasts, and Graves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvests, Feasts, and Graves\u003c\/i\u003e describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf, as Marx writes, \"the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,\" \u003ci\u003eHarvests, Feasts, and Graves\u003c\/i\u003e asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the \"ontological turn\" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Schram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501711008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501711008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Ryan Schram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113598759167,"sku":"9781501711008","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60a0b377-9b58-4872-a828-e71e51cb9174.jpg?v=1769616065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/harvests-feasts-and-graves-ryan-schram-9781501711008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}