Articulating change in the "last unknown" / Frederick K. Errington, Deborah B. Gewertz.

Author/creator Errington, Frederick Karl
Other author Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1995.
Descriptionxvii, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesStudies in the ethnographic imagination
Studies in the ethnographic imagination. ^A283323
Contents Introduction : neither shattered Eden nor inflexible tradition : a hundred years of entanglement in East New Britain -- 1. Resistance through emulation : on patrols, reports, and "cults" in colonial New Britain -- 2. Dueling currencies in East New Britain : the construction of shell money as national cultural property -- 3. From darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee : the invention of non-tradition and the inscription of a national history in East New Britain -- 4. First contact with God : individualism, agency, and revivalism in the Duke of York Islands --5. The triumph of capitalism in East New Britain? : a contemporary Papua New Guinean rhetoric of motives -- Conclusion : bloody-mindedness in the Duke of York Islands : toward seeing ourselves in the other.
General noteChiefly a collection of previously published material.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-183) and index.
LCCN 94045532
ISBN081332453X
ISBN0813324548 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DU740.9.N49 E77 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold