A Faraway, Familiar Place : An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea /

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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...

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Autor principal: Smith, Michael French (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Temas:
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. An Eccentric Longing
  • Chapter 2. Thoroughly Modern Kragur
  • Chapter 3. Hot Times on Kairiru Island
  • Chapter 4. Wu Wei Wu
  • Chapter 5. Is Kragur Poor?
  • Chapter 6. Ancestors on Paper
  • Chapter 7. Meetings and Magic
  • Chapter 8. Preferential Ballots and Primeval Brothers
  • Chapter 9. A Clean Election and Its Messy Aftermath
  • Chapter 10. Life Goes On
  • Chapter 11. God the Father, the Son, His Mother, and the Holy Spirit
  • Chapter 12. No Two Ways about It
  • Chapter 13. The Long Good-bye
  • Chapter 14. One More Look
  • Appendix Tok Pisin and Tok Pisin Pronunciation
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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