Anthropological Research and Associated Findings in the Markham Valley of Papua New Guinea
Author : H. A. Holzknecht
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Page : 98 pages
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Author : H. A. Holzknecht
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Page : 98 pages
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Author : Frederick Errington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226217451
Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there. To understand the creation of such a startling place, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz explore the perspectives of the diverse participants that had a hand in its creation. In examining these views, they also consider those of Yali, a local Papua New Guinean political leader. Significantly, Yali features not only in the story of RSL, but also in Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning world history Guns, Germs, and Steel—a history probed through its contrast with RSL's. The authors' disagreement with Diamond stems, not from the generality of his focus and the specificity of theirs, but from a difference in view about how history is made—and from an insistence that those with power be held accountable for affecting history.
Author : Kenneth E. Read
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520064683
Author : Susanne Holzknecht
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Austronesian languages
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Author : Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2004-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1403982422
How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Terence E. Hays
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1992-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520077454
Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and heroism, not to mention backbreaking labor. All these aspects of exploring the unknown enliven Ethnographic Presents, where the frontier is the Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea - a part of the world largely unseen by Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen or so pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of "first contact" patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented, and now, in an autobiographical collection that is intimate and richly detailed, we learn what these ethnographers experienced: what being on the frontier was like for them. The anthropologists featured in these seven new essays are Catherine H. Berndt, Ronald M. Berndt, Reo Fortune (by Ann McLean), Robert M. Glasse, Marie Reay, D'Arcy Ryan, and James B. Watson. Their pioneering ethnographic adventures are put in historical context by Terence Hays, and a concluding essay by Andrew Strathern points out that this early work among the peoples of the Central Highlands not only influenced all subsequent understanding of Highland cultures but also had a profound impact on the field of anthropology.
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
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Category : Ecology
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Bibliography, National
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Ecology
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