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New Guinea Big Man Island

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Author : Edward S. Rogers
language : en
Publisher: [Toronto, Ont.] : Royal Ontario Museum
Release Date : 1970

New Guinea Big Man Island written by Edward S. Rogers and has been published by [Toronto, Ont.] : Royal Ontario Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Art, Papua New Guinean categories.

"The present volume attempts to make known in published form the fine ethnological material from New Guinea and adjacent islands held by the Royal Ontario Museum, and the peoples who made these items."--Introduction.

The Death Of The Big Men And The Rise Of The Big Shots

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Author : Keir Martin
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-03-01

The Death Of The Big Men And The Rise Of The Big Shots written by Keir Martin and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Social Science categories.

In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

Big Men And Business

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Author : Ben R. Finney
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2019-03-31

Big Men And Business written by Ben R. Finney 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 2019-03-31 with Social Science categories.

High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the area's development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionaries made the first outside contacts with the Stone Age Gorokan people. These encounters ultimately catapulted the Gorokans, subsistence gardeners cultivating sweet potatoes and raising pigs, squarely into the twentieth century. The magnitude of the economic and social changes that followed in the next forty years clearly distinguish the Gorokan case as one of the most remarkable examples of human adaptability to be witnessed in modern times. Although popular thinking has it that traditional societies are change-resistant and that social reforms therefore must precede economic and other types of development, the Gorokans, remarkably, reversed the process and passed from the Stone Age to the twentieth-century marketplace in one generation. Today they are heavily involved in growing coffee, they have developed their own trucking industry for transporting coffee and other cash crops to market, and they are venturing into the raising of beef cattle and the operation of trade stores and various businesses. Big-Men and Business is the record of this extraordinary case of economic change, based on field study conducted in 1967 and 1968. Dr. Finney interviewed many of the Gorokan leaders of this commercial revolution, and draws comparisons between the Gorokan experience and that of other New Guinean peoples. One of the results of his research indicates that the Gorokans may have been predisposed to entrepreneurship. Traditionally, a Gorokan "big-man" was the man who acquired the valuables of his society—cowrie shells, mother-of-pearl shells, pigs, and bird-of-paradise plumes. These leaders were honored for their skills in the flourishing local exchange system. This fact, coupled with a supportive colonial relationship and a favorable natural environment, enhanced the Gorokans' adaptation, and thus the leap from the world of traditional exchange to one where business is conducted on a cash basis was, in reality, a short step. Foreword by Douglas L. Oliver

The Pacific Islands

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Author : Moshe Rapaport
language : en
Publisher: Bess Press
Release Date : 1999

The Pacific Islands written by Moshe Rapaport and has been published by Bess Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

Academic survey of the Pacific Islands. Includes maps, photographs, tables, diagrams, atlas, and detailed index.

The Moon Man

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Author : Elsie May Webster
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1984-01-01

The Moon Man written by Elsie May Webster 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 1984-01-01 with History categories.

Ongka

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Author : Ongka
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 1979

Ongka written by Ongka and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.

The Pacific Islands

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Author : Brij V. Lal
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01

The Pacific Islands written by Brij V. Lal 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 2000-01-01 with History categories.

An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.