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

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This book is for readers seeking an excursion into little-known terrain but allergic to the superficiality of some travel literature. This book explores an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the cliche of "Stone Age" Papua New...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Michael French (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Smith, Michael French > Travel > Papua New Guinea > Kragur.
Travel.
Manners and customs.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Kairiru (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee) > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Kairiru (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee) > Moeurs et coutumes > 21e siecle.
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Papua New Guinea > Kragur.
Kragur (Papua New Guinea) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Kragur (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An eccentric longing
  • Thoroughly modern Kragur
  • Hot times on Kairiru Island
  • Wu wei wu
  • Is Kragur poor?
  • Ancestors on paper
  • Meetings and magic
  • Preferential ballots and primeval brothers
  • A clean election and its messy aftermath
  • Life goes on
  • God the father, the son, his mom, and the holy spirit
  • No two ways about it
  • The long good-bye
  • One more look.

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