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dc.contributor.authorMatt Tomlinson,
dc.contributor.authorP. Kāwika Tengan, Ty
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-20 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:10:15Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:10:15Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier610766
dc.identifierOCN: 948621126en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32433
dc.description.abstract‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups—Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia—and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.othercultural heritage
dc.subject.otherpacific languages
dc.subject.otherspiritual power
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherMana
dc.subject.otherTapu (Polynesian culture)
dc.titleNew Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_610766
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760460075
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Anthropology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology; Mana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana; Tapu (Polynesian culture) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapu_(Polynesian_culture)
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