Devil Chasers and Art Gatherers

Ph. D. in anthropology (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Universitéd'Aix-Marseille 3), Astrid de Hontheim has been teaching anthropology of Oceania, anthropology of media, religious anthropology, anthropology of birth and anthropological field work in several Universities in Belgium and in Canada.This book studies the socio-cultural changes that occurred among the Asmat people (West Papua) during the postcolonial era, after the arrival ofthe first missionary in 1953...