Dreams Made Small : : The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia / / Jenny Munro.

For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic lo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Maps
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. New Promises, Old Problems
  • Chapter 1. Ethno-racial and Political Dreams of Education in Wamena
  • Chapter 2. ‘Newcomers’ and ‘Masters of the Land’ in North Sulawesi
  • Chapter 3. Stigma, Fear and Shame: Dani Encounters with Racial and Political Formations in North Sulawesi
  • Chapter 4. ‘Discipline Is Important’: Aspirations and Encounters on Campus
  • Chapter 5. Belonging, Expertise and Conflict in Highlanders’ Social World Abroad
  • Chapter 6. ‘Study First’: Sexuality, Pregnancy and Survival in the ‘City of Free Sex’
  • Chapter 7. Doing Good Things in a Dani Modernity
  • Conclusion. Koteka Questions
  • Bibliography
  • Index