{"product_id":"kwaio-religion-by-roger-keesing-9780231053419","title":"Kwaio Religion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKwaio Religion\u003c\/em\u003e, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernising nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the phenomenological reality of a world where one's group includes the living and the dead, where conversations with the spirits, and the signs of their presence and acts, are very much a part of everyday life. He describes conceptions of \u003cem\u003emana\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003etabu\u003c\/em\u003e that shed revealing light on old issues regarding Oceanic religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKeesing situates the elegant though largely implicit structures of Kwaio cosmology within a framework of the \"political economy of knowledge,\" examining the distribution of expertise in the community and the uses of religion as ideology, and asking how symbolic systems are perpetuated and changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuestioning some currently fashionable anthropological approaches to symbolism, myth, ritual, and cosmology—approaches Keesing characterises as \"cultural cryptography\"—\u003cem\u003eKwaio Religion\u003c\/em\u003e challenges common assumptions about cultural symbols and shared meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455611322604,"sku":"9780231053419","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81cXLnB2IbL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774787577","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/kwaio-religion-by-roger-keesing-9780231053419","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}