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Village on the edge : changing times in Papua New Guinea /

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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Michael French (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development
  • Finding Kragur
  • The Virgin and the Ancestors
  • Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism
  • Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity
  • To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank
  • Weekend on Kairiru
  • Free Ticket to Paradise
  • The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife
  • Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit
  • Money
  • New Knowledge, New Problems
  • Worlds Apart
  • Something to Hold on To.