Author: Stephen Winsor ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From the John Holmes Library collection.
The Making of Modern New Guinea
Author: Stephen Winsor ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From the John Holmes Library collection.
The Making of Modern New Guinea
Author: Stephen Winsor ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Making of Modern New Guinea
Author: Stephen Winsor ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Unmasking the State
Author: Mike McGovernPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"... A historical ethnography of the socialist period in Guinea"--Page 5.
The Making of Modern New Guinea
Author: Stephen W. ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
Author: Paige WestPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351501
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.
Making Law in Papua New Guinea
Author: Bruce L. OttleyPublisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
ISBN: 9781531005504
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
"In the waning days of colonialism in Papua New Guinea, much of the rhetoric from local leaders pushing for self-determination focused on replacing the imposed colonial legal system with one that reflected local customs, understandings, relationships, and dispute settlement techniques-in other words, a "uniquely Melanesian jurisprudence." After independence in 1975, however, that aim faded or began to be seen as an impossible objective, and PNG is left with a largely Western legal system. In this book, the authors-who were all directly involved in law teaching, law reform, and judging during that period-explore the potent and enduring grip of colonialism on law and politics long after the colonial regime has been formally disbanded. Combining original historical and legal research, engagement with the scholarly literature of dependency theory and postcolonial studies, and personal observation, interviews, and experience, Making Law in Papua New Guinea offers compelling insights into the many reasons why postcolonial nations remain imprisoned in colonial laws, institutions, and attitudes"--
Explorations Into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935
Author: Michael J. LeahyPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817304460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Explorations into Highland New Guinea, 1930-1935 is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit--not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches--by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor.
MacArthur's Jungle War
Author: Stephen R. TaaffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
His book tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of technology, tactics, and army-navy cooperation but also how the New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key offensive.
The World Until Yesterday
Author: Jared DiamondPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101606002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
