Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New GuineaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 30 jun 2002 - 232 páginas 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. |
Índice
Nostalgia Dreams Progress and Development | xviii |
Finding Kragur | xviii |
The Virgin and the Ancestors | 22 |
Food Honey and the Strangeness of Capitalism | 33 |
Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity | 47 |
To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank | 58 |
Weekend on Kairiru | 68 |
Free Ticket to Paradise | 81 |
Money | 136 |
New Knowledge New Problems | 150 |
Worlds Apart | 160 |
Something to Hold on To | 168 |
Epilogue | 177 |
Notes | 183 |
Glossary | 193 |
197 | |
The Key to the Village Structure and Strife | 102 |
Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit | 120 |
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Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea Michael French Smith Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea Michael French Smith Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Air Niugini ancestors anthropologists Australian beach Benau betel nut bigmen bilong boat Bokim Brawaung Brother called cargo cargo cults Catholic Catholicism charismatic worship Christian church coconut colonial copra cult cultural dead descent groups economic elite English European fish garden Gewertz hard Ibor important indigenous kaikrauap Kairiru Island Kairiru language Kauref kina kind kinship knew koyeng Kragur in 1998 Kragur villagers labor land leaders living magic meeting Melanesia migrants mission missionaries Moraf moral Mushu NGOs Pacific Pacific Islands Papua New Guinea Pawil Paypai Pentecostal political Port Moresby prayer religious resident villagers sago Satap saveman Sepik River social harmony societies sometimes spirit spoke stay talk tambaran taro things Tok Pisin took tourists town townsmen traditional urban villagers told Wankau Wewak Wogeo women World Bank Xavier's young
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