Making the Baruya great again: From glorified great men to modern suffering subjects?

This paper explores avenues for prestige‐making now available to and championed by the Baruya, the archetypal 'Great Man' people of Papua New Guinea, who I recently studied following previous work by Maurice Godelier. Amid critiques by Robbins and Ortner of anthropologists' drive to document and emp...

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Published in:	Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 68 - 84
Main Author:	Malbrancke, Anne‐Sylvie
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Apr2019
Subjects:	Papua New Guinea Anthropology Anthropologists Ethnology Culture
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost