{"title":"Jadran Mimica","description":"\u003cp\u003eJadran Mimica's works delve into the intricate intersections of culture, spirituality, and human experience, often through the lens of anthropology and ethnography. Readers can expect thoughtful explorations of indigenous lifeworlds and complex belief systems, presented with academic rigor and sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on themes such as identity, ritual, and the relationships between humans and their environment, these books offer rich insights for those interested in the diversity of human thought and cultural expression within the broader field of \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"of-humans-pigs-and-souls-an-essay-on-the-yagwoia-womba-complex-by-jadran-mimica-9781912808311","title":"Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls – An Essay on the Yagwoia \"Womba\" Complex","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Yagwoia-Anga people of Papua New Guinea, \"womba\" is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on long-term research among the Yagwoia and informed by existential phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Jadran Mimica explores the \u003cem\u003ewomba\u003c\/em\u003e complex in its local cultural-existential determinations and regional permutations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe attends to the lived experience of this complex in relation to the wider context of mortuary practices, historical cannibalism, and sorcery. This wider \u003cem\u003ewomba\u003c\/em\u003e complex, including its regional permutations, illuminates the moral meanings of Yagwoia selfhood and its sense of agency and subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMimica concludes by reflecting on the recent escalation of concerns with witchcraft and sorcery in Papua New Guinea, specifically in relation to the new wave of Christian evangelism occurring in partnership with the state. A short monograph grounded in ethnographic description, this book is perfect for both graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487436685548,"sku":"9781912808311","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8a81ec8349915cba8f6ba8acaf63e32c.jpg?v=1775777383"},{"product_id":"imacoqwas-arrow-on-the-biunity-of-the-sun-and-moon-in-a-papuan-lifeworld-by-jadran-mimica-9781912808748","title":"Imacoqwa`s Arrow - On the Biunity of the Sun and Moon in a Papuan Lifeworld","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eImacoqwa’s Arrow\u003c\/em\u003e, Jadran Mimica draws on decades of field research to bring us a rich ethnographic account of myth and meaning in the lifeworlds of the Yagwoia of Papua New Guinea. He focuses especially on the relations of the sun and the moon in Yagwoia understandings of the universe and their own place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is classic terrain in Melanesian ethnography, but Mimica does much more than add to the archive of anthropological accounts of the significance of the sun and the moon for peoples of this part of the world. With extraordinary rigour and reflexivity, he grounds his understanding of Yagwoia concepts in psychoanalytic and phenomenological methods that afford a radically new and revealing translation of these seminal themes in Melanesian mythology and its poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a major contribution to the hermeneutics of ethnographic translation and theorisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602995953900,"sku":"9781912808748","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781912808748-imacoqwa-s-arrow-on-the-biunity-of-the-sun-and-moon-in-a-papuan-lifeworld.jpg?v=1778052139"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jadran-mimica.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}