The meaning of whitemen
Subtitle: race and modernity in the Orokaiva cultural world
By: Ira Bashkow.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people) -- Ethnic identity.; Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people) -- Psychology; Orokaiva (Papua New Guinea people) -- Attitudes.; Blacks -- Race identity -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.; Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.; Race awareness -- Papua New Guinea -- Oro Province.; Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Race relations.; Oro Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The cultural construction of whitemen; title: Cultural world, postcolonial situation; title: The lightness of whitemen; title: The bodies of whitemen; title: The foods of whitemen; title: Conclusion: Whitemen beyond.