Friendship and Exchange along the North Coast of New Guinea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welsch, Robert L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Papua New Guinea.

Friendship.

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.

Ethnology.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Papua New Guinea--Foreign economic relations.

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Anthropologists working in Papua New Guinea have typically focused on a single ethnic community and what goes on within that community. This study considers how people in more than one hundred villages interact with people in other communities up and down the coast. These communities speak more than 50 different languages from 5 or 6 families or phyla. Documents how people in a linguistically diverse region interact over hundreds of kilometers along the coast.

Contents:

New approaches to understanding traditional economic activity

Exploring historic relationships along the north coast of New Guinea

Linguistic diversity along the north coast of New Guinea

Is material culture variation correlated with language affiliation?

Studying friendship networks along the north coast

How friendship functioned along the north coast: trying to make sense of these long-term relationships

The nature of friendship along the north Coast: what holds these relationships together from one generation to the next?

Conclusion : Exploring the impact of the Tsunami of 1998 on friendship networks around Aitape.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-419-0

9781836954194

OCLC:

1572419748