Articulating change in the "last unknown"
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Articulating change in the "last unknown"
（Studies in the ethnographic imagination）
Westview Press, 1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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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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