ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. In Memory of Times to Come : : Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea / / Melissa Demian.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active participants in the Second World War. In Memory o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Anthropology and History in the Pacific
- 1 Naming, Loss, and Waiting “Suau” as a Historical Category
- 2 Death, Kastom, and the Work of Forgetting
- 3 Times Past, or, the Golden Age
- 4 Old Roads, New Roads Temporal Cartography
- 5 Times Present, or, “No Government Here”
- 6 Times to Come (in the Near Future)
- Conclusion: Measuring Time
- References
- Index