New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures
‘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 tran...
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| author | Matt Tomlinson, P. Kāwika Tengan, Ty |
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| description | ‘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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-274012025-07-21T15:58:16Z New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures Matt Tomlinson, P. Kāwika Tengan, Ty cultural heritage pacific languages spiritual power Anthropology Mana Tapu (Polynesian culture) thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ‘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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-06-20 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:10:15Z 2016 book 610766 OCN: 948621126 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32433 9781760460075 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27401 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32433/1/610766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32433/1/610766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32433/1/610766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32433/1/610766.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32433/1/610766.pdf ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_610766 10.26530/OAPEN_610766 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760460075 open access |
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