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Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions - Couverture rigide

Trompf, G. W.

 
9780521416917: Payback: The Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521416914 ISBN 13 : 9780521416917
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Near to the heart of the human predicament are impulses to avenge - what most of us will recognize to be negative, counterproductive reactions against others who pose a threat. By contrast, nothing re-establishes our faith in humanity more than extraordinary acts of concession, such as peace-making, generosity and sacrifice. In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people 'pay back' and opens up a whole dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

Revue de presse

"In this fascinating book, Trompf brings to fruition fifteen years of unstinting research on religion in the southwest Pacific region....Trompf's breadth of erudition and vision...is bound to stir fresh and stimulating debate, not only because it interprets the world of Melanesian retributive logics but also because it takes on the task of changing them." History of Religions

"Trompf pointedly rebukes materialist theories of human behavior and also notions of primitive irrationality....The volume combines an extraordinary, even numbing, assortment of ethnographic detail with a simple, unitary, explanatory premise." Lamont Lindstrom, The Contemporary Pacific

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521416914
ISBN 13 
9780521416917
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
568
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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