Becoming sinners : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society /

In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Joel, 1961-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©2004.
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 4.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp8f0