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Christianity --- Oceania --- Church history --- Religions --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Islands of the Pacific --- Church history. --- OceaniE [werelddeel] --- historiografie --- protestantisme --- katholicisme --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Te Moana Nui --- Christianity - Oceania --- Oceania - Church history

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Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. 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.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves 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.If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves 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.Rather 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.

Postcolonialism --- Social change --- Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Milne Bay Province (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs. --- postcolonial consciousness, Christianity, Oceania, cultural change.