Author: Brad Underhill
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 176046662X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea. To what extent did Australia prepare Papua New Guinea for independence? And what were the policies and the ideologies behind colonial development, implemented after World War II? A key innovation of this book is to take these questions from policy desks in Canberra and Port Moresby to the villages of four administrative areas: Chimbu, Milne Bay, Sepik and New Hanover. How successful were Australian colonial planners in designing and implementing programs that could ameliorate the potential harm of market capitalism and develop ‘new’ socioeconomic structures that would combine a disparate people into an ‘imagined community’, capable of becoming an independent nation-state in the far distant future? Colonial intention is contrasted with Indigenous experience. Bradley Underhill explores an Australian governmental tendency to prioritise colonial control over Indigenous autonomy in circumstances where subjugated people do not necessarily fit within an expected narrative of compliant or westernised ‘native’. ‘I expect it will become the standard reference for its subject, which covers a pivotal aspect of Australia’s colonial administration.’ —Bill Gammage
Author: Paula Brown
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824817015
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Beyond a Mountain Valley focuses on Simbu memories, performance, and conceptions over the last sixty years, particularly those relating to interactions with newcomers and other island peoples. Simbu speak of their awakening, their transitions, their heroes, and their future.
Author: Paula Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136546766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined. This volume illustrates, contrary to widely held preconceptions about the nature of primitive societies, that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past. Originally published in 1973.
Author: Elspeth Young
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134936354
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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European colonisation has marginalised the `first peoples' in industrialised countries such as Australia and Canada. In remote regions, still the homes of large Aboriginal, Indian and Inuit populations, this legacy remains strong. Modernisation - the `boom and bust' model of state and private development - and the partial and biased assistance provided by the state have eroded many communities through their disregard for socio-economic structures and the beliefs which underpin them. Third World in the First explores the past, present and future of these peoples, their treatment by the `West' and the alternative strategies of development which might be available to them.
Author: Lawrence S. Grossman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400855276
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Lawrence S. Grossman explores the far-reaching implications of the conflicts between subsistence and commodity production in developing countries. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Elspeth A. Young
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415116732
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Explores the lives of the `first peoples' in developed countries such as Australia and Canada, describing how they are increasingly marginalised and eroded due to State disregard for social structures and the beliefs which underpinn them.
Author: D. A. Low
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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An account of the unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.
Author: John Connell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134938322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.
Author: Denise O'Brien
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author: Diana R. Howlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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