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Village on the edge : changing times in Papua New Guinea
- Title
- Village on the edge : changing times in Papua New Guinea / Michael French Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Michael French.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DU740.42 .S66 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Social conditions
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) > Economic conditions
- 73.06 ethnography
- Economic history
- Social conditions
- Ethnologie
- Feldforschung
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Kulturwandel
- Kairiru (volk)
- Sociaal-economische situatie
- Kairiru (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions sociales
- Kairiru (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions économiques
- Iwi taketake
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) > Economic conditions
- Papua New Guinea > Kragur
- Kairiru Island
- Kragur
- Kragur (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions sociales
- Kragur (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions économiques
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0824825217
- 9780824825218
- 0824826094
- 9780824826093
- LCCN
- 2002017304
- OCLC
- ocm48767710
- 48767710
- SCSB-1255976
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library