Globalisation and bridewealth rhetoric |
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Authors: | Neil Maclean |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | This article offers a close analysis of a ‘classic’ body of ethnographic material on the rhetoric and ritual accompanying
bridewealth exchange and argues both for the perspective it provides on the dynamics of cultural continuity, and for the contemporary
significance of such continuity for theorising the politics of globalisation. Munn’s study on ‘spacetime’ provides a perspective
on bridewealth, both as praxis of continuity and of articulation with global processes. I conclude this article by posing
the question of whether subjects such as the Maring of Papua New Guinea can be said to have agency at the global level. I
argue that the condition of such agency is the alienation of that agency from their specificity as subjects. |
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