Articulating change in the "last unknown" / Frederick K. Errington, Deborah B. Gewertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Errington, Frederick Karl.

Contributor:

Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-

Series:

Studies in the ethnographic imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea).

Physical Description:

xvii, 196 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.

Contents:

Introduction : neither shattered Eden nor inflexible tradition : a hundred years of entanglement in East New Britain

1. Resistance through emulation : on patrols, reports, and "cults" in colonial New Britain

2. Dueling currencies in East New Britain : the construction of shell money as national cultural property

3. From darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee : the invention of non-tradition and the inscription of a national history in East New Britain

4. First contact with God : individualism, agency, and revivalism in the Duke of York Islands

5. The triumph of capitalism in East New Britain? : a contemporary Papua New Guinean rhetoric of motives

Conclusion : bloody-mindedness in the Duke of York Islands : toward seeing ourselves in the other.

Notes:

Chiefly a collection of previously published material.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183).

ISBN:

081332453X

0813324548

OCLC:

31710116