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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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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