Negotiating the Horizon—Living Christianity in Melanesia

Dundon, Alison

doi:10.1080/14442213.2011.544247

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“…those organised by Christian churches. Churches in the Paciic have been very successful at adapting indigenous customs to suit their own needs (Dundon, 2011;White, 1991: 92-156). Gregory, for example, analysed a form of like-for-like exchange that was organised by a church in Poreporena, Papua New Guinea, with the aim of accumulating capital (Gregory, 1980: 647).…”

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Sikret Fren: economic costs and moral values in a friendship ritual in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Maggio¹

2017

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his article analyses the case of Sikret Fren, a like-forlike gift exchange ritual organised by the members of the Anglican church of Gilbert Camp, an illegal settlement on the outskirts of Honiara, Solomon Islands. he objects exchanged, the people involved, and their relationships are discussed according to Gregory's analytical opposition between Gift and Commodity. he resulting categorization of people, objects, and relationships is looked at from the perspective of the Domestic Moral Economy developed by Peterson & Taylor. he article locates Sikret Fren in relation to the cultural, historical, geographical, and socioeconomic context in which it was developed; illustrates the rationale behind the reciprocal transactions of identical gifts between ritual friends; and suggests that urban and peri-urban settlers use their cultural creativity in reaction to the moral and economic challenges caused by the incompatibilities between their values and their material conditions.

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Sikret Fren: economic costs and moral values in a friendship ritual in Honiara, Solomon Islands

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2017

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“…Further, we must be careful not to exoticise non‐Western forms of Christianity. It also needs to be said here that the Christianity of the established national churches of PNG—those with members numbering more than 100,000 (Gibbs )—is also a globalising force that has had implications for the anthropology of Melanesia since its inception (Dundon ). Moreover, I suggest that it is in the regions where the mainline churches are well‐established that evangelism has uniquely local consequences.…”

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Why Alewai village needed a church: Some reflections on Christianity, conversion, and male leadership in south‐east Papua New Guinea

Heekeren

2014

Australian J of Anthropology

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In the Vula'a villages of south‐east Papua New Guinea, the experience of more than a century of Christianity has been incorporated into local understandings of identity and tradition. Church‐building (in both the architectural and ideological sense) is at the centre of village life. Even though it was a general policy of the London Missionary Society to build a church in every village in which conversion was undertaken, they did not build a church in the Vula'a village of Alewai. In 2001 the fact that Alewai did not have a church initiated a chain of events that draws attention to a situation of current relevance for Papua New Guinea, as evangelists no longer work to convert the ‘heathen’ but to convert Christians from one denomination to another. As a case study the article is focused on the pastors and deacons of the United Church and thus also serves to document some of the changes that have occurred in male leadership since the early colonial era.

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Negotiating the Horizon—Living Christianity in Melanesia

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Sikret Fren: economic costs and moral values in a friendship ritual in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Sikret Fren: economic costs and moral values in a friendship ritual in Honiara, Solomon Islands

Why Alewai village needed a church: Some reflections on Christianity, conversion, and male leadership in south‐east Papua New Guinea

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