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28 mars 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.pacific.137
- isbn: 9782953748505
- eisbn: 9782956398103
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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social anthropology cultural change pacific studies studies of religion Pacifique anthropologie sociale mutation culturelle religion Sociology SOC002010 JHMCSujets proches
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Deborah Van Heekeren, « Giving-for-Being: The Religion of Vula’a Exchange », pacific-credo Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.pacific.137
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The ethnographic focus of this chapter is the “combined fellowship” exchanges that are part of the United Church Women’s Fellowship (UCWF) program of the Vula’a people (conventionally known as the Hula) on the south-eastern coast of Papua New Guinea. I bring the perspective of existential phenomenology to bear on a configuration of issues presently of concern to Melanesian anthropology to argue that contemporary Christian practice is grounded in a pre-Christian ontology. Following Heidegger I...