Set Texts - Becoming Sinners

what are the Urapmin divided into, which they don’t see as hierarchical but did cause issues when a mining company gave more jobs to the top section

top and bottom group

what sort of descent system do the urapmin have

cognatic

how do all of the 400 urapmin see eahc other, because of the cognatic descent system and intermarriage

kin

who compete for followers in Urapmin

big men

the urapmin’s regional landscape is also dominated by hierarchy - who is at the top

telefomin

how do the Urapmin see their regional position

significant players but also have secret aspects of their religion

what do the urapmin have simultaneously at play

two cultural logics

how did the Urapmin adopt christianity

rapidly as a whole

what do the Urapmin understand as creating social relationships

exchange

2 urapmin words for eating — the latter refers to something you have made for yourself, and therefore does no work creating social relationships

eating and eating nothing

what did the colonial concept of law fit into the Urapmin idea of

taboo

what approach, looking at conversion from a local to a world religion, argues that people convert for worldly advantages (assumes a universal understanding of what is valuable, issue of circularity)

utilitarian approach

what approach agues people convert to world religions to understand the world around them, reliigion provides an answer to the meaning of an issue

intellectualism

how could you combine the utilitarian and intellectualist approach to conversion

2 stage model of adoption

how did christianity primarily spread to the urapmin

young people educated externally

exmaple of how the urapmin changed their built environment in their conversion to christianity

sacra houses taken down by young men educated in telefol

_____ imagination is at the centre of Urapmin social core, breaking up their world into clear identities

geographic imagination

what does Robbins take cultural modes of soical structure to be s

sets of cultural representations about persons, groups and relationships

how do the Urapmin udnerstand people acting

wilful and lawful ways

where do the urapmin see thinking, feeling and knowing all as happening

the heart

what are the 2 impulses people have intheir hearts

good thinking (do things with those you already have relations with) and the will (do something new, creative act)

what were the Urapmin taught about their will by Christian missions

push down your will and only follow god’s will

if the urapmin ignore wilfullness, what can they not do

create new social relationships

example of people refusing to be wilful because they associated it with sin

2 politically influential big men refusing to make marriage arrangements for daughters

what kind of social structure does this type of christianity really need in order to be intelligible, which the urapmin do not have

free market

why do the urapmin also have to keep their old moral beliefs - what has christianity not given them

a new social structure

what is the paradox of lawfulness and wilfulness

no matter how lawful an action, it always looks wilful from the other pov

what is there a conflict between in the Urapmin society + Christianty

individualism and relationism

what is salvation often communicated in, emphasising its individualist nature

sports races or plane tickets

what approach to christianirt do the Urapmin have (believe jesus could come back at any time)

millenerianism

what do the urapmin think a person’s salvation is contingent on

managing their sin

what theoretical framework does chisungu largely work within

structural-functionalism

what does Richard’s use of multiple interpretations perhaps anticipate theoretically

intepretivism

what theoretical framework does Robbins use largely — looking at a conflict between two binary values

structuralism

who criticizes Robbins for applying a western structural framework to urapmin society, and challenges the claim that the Urapmin have all taken on christianity compeltely and equally

heinzemann