The Meaning of Whitemen
Race And Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
Bashkow, Ira
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BOOK SUMMARY
A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, the whiteman has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of P
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A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, "the whiteman" has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counterevidence.While Papua New Guinea's resident white population has been severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman remains a significant racial and cultural other here--not only as an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a foil for people's evaluations of themselves within vernacular frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures.A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society, The Meaning of Whitemen turns traditional ethnography to the purpose of understanding how others see us.
AUTHOR BIO
Ira Bashkow is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthographic Conventions
1. Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Whitemen
2. Cultural World, Postcolonial Situation
3. The Lightness of Whitemen
4. The Bodies of Whitemen
5. The Foods of Whitemen
6. Conclusion: Whitemen Beyond
Notes
References
Index
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226038912
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226038919
Dewey Decimal: 305.8009953/09045
Library of Congress: 2005031375
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 329
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