Village on the Edge : : Changing Times in Papua New Guinea / / Michael French Smith.
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 s...
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Smith, Michael French, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Village on the Edge : Changing Times in Papua New Guinea / Michael French Smith. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002] ©2002 1 online resource (234 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development -- Chapter 2. Finding Kragur -- Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Ancestors -- Chapter 4. Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism -- Chapter 5. Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity -- Chapter 6. To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank -- Chapter 7. Weekend on Kairiru -- Chapter 8. Free Ticket to Paradise -- Chapter 9. The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife -- Chapter 10. Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit -- Chapter 11. Money -- Chapter 12. New Knowledge, New Problems -- Chapter 13. Worlds Apart -- Chapter 14. Something to Hold on To -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Tok Pisin and Kairiru Terms -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) Economic conditions. Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) Social conditions. HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824825218 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824865450 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824865450 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824865450/original |
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Smith, Michael French, Smith, Michael French, Village on the Edge : Changing Times in Papua New Guinea / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development -- Chapter 2. Finding Kragur -- Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Ancestors -- Chapter 4. Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism -- Chapter 5. Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity -- Chapter 6. To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank -- Chapter 7. Weekend on Kairiru -- Chapter 8. Free Ticket to Paradise -- Chapter 9. The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife -- Chapter 10. Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit -- Chapter 11. Money -- Chapter 12. New Knowledge, New Problems -- Chapter 13. Worlds Apart -- Chapter 14. Something to Hold on To -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Tok Pisin and Kairiru Terms -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development -- Chapter 2. Finding Kragur -- Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Ancestors -- Chapter 4. Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism -- Chapter 5. Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity -- Chapter 6. To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank -- Chapter 7. Weekend on Kairiru -- Chapter 8. Free Ticket to Paradise -- Chapter 9. The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife -- Chapter 10. Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit -- Chapter 11. Money -- Chapter 12. New Knowledge, New Problems -- Chapter 13. Worlds Apart -- Chapter 14. Something to Hold on To -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Tok Pisin and Kairiru Terms -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development -- Chapter 2. Finding Kragur -- Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Ancestors -- Chapter 4. Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism -- Chapter 5. Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity -- Chapter 6. To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank -- Chapter 7. Weekend on Kairiru -- Chapter 8. Free Ticket to Paradise -- Chapter 9. The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife -- Chapter 10. Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit -- Chapter 11. Money -- Chapter 12. New Knowledge, New Problems -- Chapter 13. Worlds Apart -- Chapter 14. Something to Hold on To -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Tok Pisin and Kairiru Terms -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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