Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea Export

@article{citeulike:1578705, author = {Dwyer and Peter, D. and Minnegal and Monica}, citeulike-article-id = {1578705}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00442.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/jrai/2007/00000013/00000003/art00002}, comment = {Abstract: An account of the history and actions of one man is used to show how agency was central to processes of social change among Kubo people of the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Through a thirteen-year period, a growing awareness of, but little exposure to, `Western' modes of living challenged earlier certainties, created desires, and suggested alternatives. Modernity thus provided the context for change. But modernity is not itself a process of change. By drawing from ambiguities inherent in pre-existing structures (or discourses) or created de novo through encounters with previously unimagined possibilities, and by favouring one or another of the multiple trajectories legitimized by those ambiguities, people were causally implicated in changing the conditions of their own existence. Those changes entailed a shift from a predominantly relational epistemology to an increasingly categorical epistemology.}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00442.x}, issn = {1359-0987}, journal = {The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, keywords = {agency, change, epistemology, guinea, new, papua, social}, month = {September}, number = {3}, pages = {545--562}, posted-at = {2007-10-22 02:08:59}, priority = {4}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing}, title = {Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00442.x}, volume = {13}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1578705 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1578705 IS - 3 JF - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute SN - 1359-0987 EP - 562 TI - Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea PB - Blackwell Publishing VL - 13 SP - 545 KW - agency KW - change KW - epistemology KW - guinea KW - new KW - papua KW - social N1 - Abstract: An account of the history and actions of one man is used to show how agency was central to processes of social change among Kubo people of the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Through a thirteen-year period, a growing awareness of, but little exposure to, `Western' modes of living challenged earlier certainties, created desires, and suggested alternatives. Modernity thus provided the context for change. But modernity is not itself a process of change. By drawing from ambiguities inherent in pre-existing structures (or discourses) or created de novo through encounters with previously unimagined possibilities, and by favouring one or another of the multiple trajectories legitimized by those ambiguities, people were causally implicated in changing the conditions of their own existence. Those changes entailed a shift from a predominantly relational epistemology to an increasingly categorical epistemology. AU - Dwyer AU - Peter, D AU - Minnegal AU - Monica PY - 2007/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00442.x ER -