The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

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The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia is written by Holly Wardlow and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351886215 (ISBN 10) and 9781351886215 (ISBN 13).

Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.