Anthropology In Papua New Guinea
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Anthropology In Papua New Guinea
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Author : Herbert Ian Hogbin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Anthropology In Papua New Guinea written by Herbert Ian Hogbin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Ethnology Papua-New Guinea (Ter.) categories.
A Faraway Familiar Place
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Author : Michael French Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2014-11-30
A Faraway Familiar Place written by Michael French Smith and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-30 with Social Science categories.
A Faraway Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is for readers seeking an excursion deep into little-known terrain but allergic to the wide-eyed superficiality of ordinary travel literature. Author Michael French Smith savors the sometimes gritty romance of his travels to an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the cliché of “Stone Age” Papua New Guinea. He also gives the lie to stereotypes of anthropologists as either machete-wielding swashbucklers or detached observers turning real people into abstractions. Smith uses his anthropological expertise subtly, to illuminate Papua New Guinean lives, to nudge readers to look more closely at ideas they take for granted, and to take a wry look at his own experiences as an anthropologist. Although Smith first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973, in 2008 it had been ten years since he had been back to Kragur Village, Kairiru Island, where he was an honorary “citizen.” He went back not only to see people he had known for decades, but also to find out if his desire to return was more than an urge to flee the bureaucracy and recycled indoor air of his job in a large American city. Smith finds in Kragur many things he remembered fondly, including a life immersed in nature and freedom from 9-5 tyranny. And he again encounters the stifling midday heat, the wet tropical sores, and the sometimes excruciating intensity of village social life that he had somehow managed to forget. Through practicing Taoist “not doing” Smith continues to learn about villagers’ difficult transition from an older world based on giving to one in which money rules and the potent mix of devotion and innovation that animates Kragur’s pervasive religious life. Becoming entangled in local political events, he gets a closer look at how ancestral loyalties and fear of sorcery influence hotly disputed contemporary elections. In turn, Kragur people practice their own form of anthropology on Smith, questioning him about American work, family, religion, and politics, including Barack Obama’s campaign for president. They ask for help with their financial problems—accounting lessons and advice on attracting tourists—but, poor as they are, they also offer sympathy for the Americans they hear are beset by economic crisis. By the end of the book Smith returns to Kragur again—in 2011—to complete projects begun in 2008, see Kragur’s chief for the last time (he died later that year), and bring Kragur’s story up to date. A Faraway Familiar Place provides practical wisdom for anyone leaving well-traveled roads for muddy forest tracks and landings on obscure beaches, as well as asking important questions about wealth and poverty, democracy, and being “modern.”
Ethnographic Presents
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Author : Terence E. Hays
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992-09-24
Ethnographic Presents written by Terence E. Hays and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-24 with Social Science categories.
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.
Substantial Justice
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Author : Michael Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Substantial Justice written by Michael Goddard and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians.
Village On The Edge
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Author : Michael French Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2002-06-30
Village On The Edge written by Michael French Smith and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-30 with History categories.
Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 1998 the village looked much as it had some twenty-two years earlier when author Michael French Smith first visited. But he soon found that changing circumstances were shaking things up. Village on the Edge weaves together the story of Kragur villagers' struggle to find their own path toward the future with the story of Papua New Guinea's travails in the post-independence era. Smith writes of his own experiences as well, living and working in Papua New Guinea and trying to understand the complexities of an unfamiliar way of life. To tell all these stories, he delves into ghosts, magic, myths, ancestors, bookkeeping, tourism, the World Bank, the Holy Spirits, and the meaning of progress and development. Village on the Edge draws on the insights of cultural anthropology but is written for anyone interested in Papua New Guinea.
Empowering The Past Confronting The Future The Duna People Of Papua New Guinea
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Author : Andrew J. Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-06-11
Empowering The Past Confronting The Future The Duna People Of Papua New Guinea written by Andrew J. Strathern and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-11 with Social Science categories.
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.
Road Through The Rain Forest
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Author : David M. Hayano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Road Through The Rain Forest written by David M. Hayano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is Hayano's personal narrative of his fieldwork with the Awa, & how he seeks to understand both the Awa & himself in the process.
The Unseen City
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Author : Michael Bruce Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Pandanus Books
Release Date : 2005
The Unseen City written by Michael Bruce Goddard and has been published by Pandanus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Based on the fieldwork of an anthropologist among people in Port Moresby's much-maligned migrant 'settlements'. It addresses the contemporary situation of these urban peoples, displacing popular generalizations with more detailed accounts which do justice to their resilience, and creative responses to the challenges of living in a burgeoning Melanesian city.
Anthropology
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Author : Papua New Guinea. Department of District Administration. Headquarters Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Anthropology written by Papua New Guinea. Department of District Administration. Headquarters Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Ethnology categories.
The Evolution Of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
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Author : D. K. Feil
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-12-03
The Evolution Of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies written by D. K. Feil and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
D. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.