Articulating change in the "last unknown"
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Bibliographic Information
Articulating change in the "last unknown"
(Studies in the ethnographic imagination)
Westview Press, 1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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Note
Chiefly a collection of previously published material
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-183) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An exploration of the questions of identity and value posed by people living on or near the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New Guinea. The book focuses on how the Karavarans' long-term preoccupation with identity and worth has played out in various social contexts.
Table of Contents
- Neither shattered Eden nor inflexible tradition - a hundred years of entanglement in East New Britain
- resistance through emulation - on patrols, reports and "cults" in colonial East New Britain
- duelling currencies in East New Britain
- the construction of shell money as national cultural property
- from darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee - the invention of non-tradition and the inscription of national history in East New Britain
- first contact with God - individualism, agency and revivalism in the Duke of York Islands
- the triumph of capitalism in East New Britain?
- a contemporary Papua New Guinea rhetoric of motives
- on bloodymindedness in the Duke of York Islands
- towards seeing ourselves in the other.
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