Book Review: The Meaning of Whitemen: race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world

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dc.contributor.authorLepani, Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-15T23:11:04Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2020-11-08T07:21:36Z
dc.description.abstractIn this vivid and theoretically important ethnography, Ira Bashkow explores the legacy of white racial privilege and power from the perspective of the Orokaiva people of Oro Province in mainland Papua New Guinea. ‘Whitemen’ is the distinctly masculine racial gloss that Orokaiva (and Bashkow) use to substantiate objects, activities, places, and institutions associated with the attributes of western modernity in the postcolonial landscape. Bashkow adeptly examines how Orokaiva selectively appropriate stereotypical qualities and values of whitemen, at once desired and disdained, and appraise them within their own moral economy as a cultural self-critiqueen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0029-8077en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/222900
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherOceania Publicationsen_AU
dc.rights© 2010 Oceania Publicationsen_AU
dc.sourceOceaniaen_AU
dc.titleBook Review: The Meaning of Whitemen: race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural worlden_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage115en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage114en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLepani, Katherine, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3925690@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLepani, Katherine, u3925690en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4201517xPUB223en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume80en_AU
local.identifier.thomsonID000276002100006
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4201517en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gben_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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