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1. A Short History of Papua New Guinea
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2. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries
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3. Village on the Edge: Changing
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4. In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological
 
5. Papua New Guinea: Black Unity
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6. Historical Dictionary of Papua
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7. A Trial Separation: Australia
 
8. Papua New Guinea
 
9. Papua New Guinea: The Challenge
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10. Innocence to Independence: Life
 
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11. Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing
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12. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse
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13. Conservation Is Our Government
14. Building a Nation in Papua New
 
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15. The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election:
 
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16. Law and Order in a Weak State:
 
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17. Historical Dictionary of Papua
 
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18. My gun, my brother, the world
 
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19. Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission
 
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20. Peter Donovan. For Youth and the

1. A Short History of Papua New Guinea
by John Dademo Waiko
Paperback: 287 Pages (1993-02-08)
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A Short History of Papua New Guinea is a concise book describing the quick and steady growth of the many small, isolated and self-sufficient societies that made up the fledgeling British Papua and German New Guinea colonies towards the end of the last century. The book traces how the British and German colonies grew and the effects that each administration had on health, religion, education and trade up to and beyond independence. ... Read more

2. New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History
by Clive Moore
Hardcover: 320 Pages (2003-07)
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New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia's Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety.

The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region--the basic physical geography and prehistoric periods of settlement, agricultural development, and expansion and the nature of trade networks and population movements--arguing that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The European incursion--beginning with the Portuguese and Spanish in the early sixteenth century, the Dutch a century later, and the British from the late 1700s--is examined in light of early trading engagements and the development of more formal trade networks, the history of the Melanesian labor trade, and the role of violence in European and New Guinean relations. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.

Ambitious and wide-ranging, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History effectively challenges conventional thinking about the region and will be read with great interest by students and scholars of Pacific and Indonesian history, anthropology, and prehistory. ... Read more

3. Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea
by Michael French Smith
Paperback: 232 Pages (2002-03)
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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 shaking things up. Village on the Edge weaves together the story of Kragur villagers' struggle to find their own path toward the future with the story of Papua New Guinea's travails in the post-independence era. Smith writes of his own experiences as well, living and working in Papua New Guinea and trying to understand the complexities of an unfamiliar way of life. To tell all these stories, he delves into ghosts, magic, myths, ancestors, bookkeeping, tourism, the World Bank, the Holy Spirit, and the meaning of progress and development. Village on the Edge draws on the insights of cultural anthropology but is written for anyone interested in Papua New Guinea.

"In Village on the Edge, Michael French Smith provides the reader with something rare and precious--a humane and sharply insightful view into the rich local world of a village in transition in Papua New Guinea." --- Bruce Beehler, Conservation International

"Michael French Smith spins a great yarn. He has an admirable ability to translate personal experiences into a meaningful message and can describe complex social phenomena in ways that the anthropologically uninitiated can understand and appreciate. I finished this book in just a few sittings and thoroughly enjoyed it." --- Richard Scaglion, University of Pittsburgh

"Michael French Smith's Village on the Edge is a heartfelt and perceptive account of a people facing enormous change. In essence, although this book concerns the people of Kragur Village, it tells the story of all of contemporary Melanesia. It is a unique work, elucidating a unique period of change among an extraordinary people." --- Tim Flannery, author of Throwim Way Leg: Tree Kangaroos, Possums and Penis Gourds ... Read more

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After almost a century of modern-style research, the world is not exactly short of ethnographies.You can find works on everybody from Indiana town dwellers to Sri Lankan fishermen.Papua New Guinea, as an area where a wide variety of cultures, some with Stone Age technologies, endured well into the 20th century, attracted the attention of anthropologists right from the start.There are a very large number of books on the country, starting with Malinowski�s seminal works on the Trobriand Islands during and after WW I.Most, but not all, of them concentrated on investigations of what are often referred to as �traditional cultures�, if not �primitive�.Anthropologists, not unlike Western tourists, have often been lured by the �exotic� parts of the world where cultures extremely different from their own could be found. Bateson, Burridge, Glasse, Heider, Hogbin, Mead, Pospisil, Rappaport,Reay, Schieffelin, and Wagner to name a few, gravitated to Papua New Guinea, drawn perhaps by the chance to study people whose cultures were �untouched� by the West.�Untouched� is no doubt a relative word.A few others, especially Lawrence and Worsley, delved into the cargo cults, an aspect of Melanesian religion that sprang up in the wake of colonial pressures on traditional beliefs.Modern Papua New Guinea, with its Christianity, bureaucracy, development projects, education, corruption, urban crime, and population explosion, has not received so much attention.Until now.Michael French Smith�s VILLAGE ON THE EDGE is a delightful new ethnography based on work in the same village in the mid-1970s and then in the late �90s.Based on the idea of observing change, because Kragur village, on Kairiru island, off the north coast of the country, has been changing rapidly for many decades, Smith succeeds brilliantly.To my taste, he strikes just the right note between popular writing and professional investigation.In a clear, jargon-less style, he covers many areas usually found in ethnographies, such as village structure, family structure, the economic and political system, and religious beliefs, but focusses on how all these things have changed.It is a down-to-earth, non-exotic picture of present dilemmas for the Kragur villagers who still, after over twenty years of independence, remain poised between a sharing, cooperative society based on personal ties and the money-based, more individualistic one introduced as a correct model by the West and emulated by educated, town-dwelling locals.Smith puts himself into the picture, admits to his predilections and difficulties.Refreshingly, he does not hide behind some false �objectivity�, but shows how he accepted certain privileges (and dealt with some problems) that came with being a �whiteman�.This honesty, coupled with a sense of humor and nice introduction of the flavor of Pidgin English or Tok Pisin, a national language in the country, made the book all the more appealing.

Melanesian societies often believed that knowledge�-of magic or ritual�-held the key to success in any endeavor, would be the best guarantee of prosperity.Those who had the best knowledge grew the best crops, caught the most fish, or had the most successful trading relationships.But, if many people in the village had that knowledge, then the whole village would be prosperous and successful.Thus, Kragur villagers, like most Melanesians, saw Western education as the way to go if they wanted to raise their standard of living, to obtain money and an easier life.Get Western education, prosper like the Westerners.In a way, Smith points out in the heart of the book, they have been proven right, but the results challenge the whole belief system that underlay their society.For them, if individuals prosper, but the village does not, the new knowledge has failed to produce the desired result.But as time goes by, as more individuals prosper, will not the old ideals completely fade, will not the old cooperative society vanish ?The village is on the edge.

I urge everyone interested in knowing what Papua New Guinea is like today to read this book.It should be on every reading list dealing with the modern Pacific, modern Melanesia, or �dilemmas of development�.If you are trying to attract students to the field of anthropology or to draw their attention to the process of writing ethnographies, you can hardly go wrong with VILLAGE ON THE EDGE. ... Read more

4. In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives
by Naomi M. McPherson
Paperback: 264 Pages (2001-08-22)
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Papua New Guinea is a place that captures the imagination. It is linguistically, culturally, and environmentally diverse. Its history is a layered saga of colonialism; the indigenous inhabitants of Papua New Guinea were at different points in time administered by Germany, Britain, and Australia. This collection of anthropological essays attempts to reveal the complexity of Papua New Guinea’s colonial experience.



In these original essays, ten Pacific scholars look at Papua New Guinea’s colonial experience through a diverse array of eyewitnesses, sources, and viewpoints. These narratives provide a rich and nuanced set of testimonies and reflections, enabling a full range of historical personae to speak to the reality of colonial life. Together, their stories form a detailed ethnography of colonists and colonizers, an entirely new, and necessary, contribution toward understanding Papua New Guinea in particular and colonialism in general.

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5. Papua New Guinea: Black Unity or Black Chaos? (Pelican)
by Hank Nelson
 Paperback: 237 Pages (1974-05-01)

Isbn: 0140214062
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6. Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East)
by Ann Turner
Hardcover: 416 Pages (2001-08-28)
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Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkable rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The dictionary covers major economic, social, political and cultural developments, basic geographic information, and biographies. ... Read more

7. A Trial Separation: Australia And the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea
by Donald Denoon
Paperback: 240 Pages (2005-12)
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8. Papua New Guinea
by Ernst Loffler
 Hardcover: 82 Pages (1980-03-03)

Isbn: 0091354307
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9. Papua New Guinea: The Challenge of Independence: The Challenge of Independence : A Nation in Turmoil
by Mark Turner
 Paperback: 200 Pages (1990-11-29)

Isbn: 0140123903
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10. Innocence to Independence: Life in the Papua New Guinea Highlands 1956-1980
by Judith Hollinshed
Paperback: 257 Pages (2004-12-30)
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11. Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea
by Shelley Mallett
 Hardcover: 352 Pages (2003-02-20)
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Conceiving Cultures reflects on the ways anthropologists come to understand and represent the people and cultures that they study. These ideas are developed through an ethnographic study that explores notions of the gendered person through knowledge of and practices relating to reproductive health on the Massim island of Nuakata in Papua New Guinea. In a distinct and engaging style, Shelley Mallett describes the ways that Massim women manage their reproductive health and notes the tensions that arise as they negotiate a path between conflicting local traditions and state-sponsored, Western-style medical practices. The interaction among local women, a community health worker, and practitioners of traditional medicine provides a focus for reflection on the impact of Western medical knowledge and practices on local ideas concerning gender, person, body, spirit, individuality, agency, and mortality.
By conjoining problems of reproductive health with feminist and anthropological theories on the gendered person and the political/ethical dilemmas of writing cultures, this book makes a unique contribution to contemporary theorizing about these cross-disciplinary debates. The text asserts the legitimate place of reflexive, if not autobiographic, ethnographic genres, especially in studies of person, place, and gender relations.
Shelley Mallett is Research Fellow, the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
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12. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935
by Brenda Johnson Clay
Hardcover: 324 Pages (2005-07-15)
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The subject of colonialism encompasses a multitude of analytic concerns about the nature and extent of political controls, economic inequalities, and social hierarchies. Underlying the varied conditions of power and subordination are the diverse, sometimes contested representations of human difference that motivate, support, or question colonial practices and projects. Unstable Images concentrates a critical gaze on this discursive side of colonialism through close readings of a series of Western texts on the people of New Ireland from the 1870s to the 1930s—when the status of the New Ireland–New Britain region changed from precolonial to German control and finally to a League of Nations mandated Australian administration.

By narrowing her focus in both space and time, Brenda Clay reveals new insights into the complex dynamics through which images of "self" and "other" are continually transformed. Engaging with the current literature on both colonialism! and processes of creativity within cross-cultural encounters, Unstable Images provides an in-depth analysis of Western colonial representations along with a reflective ethnographic understanding of islander responses. Through selective, careful reading of these texts—written for the most part by missionaries and anthropologists—Clay imparts a sense of the complexities and ambiguities inherent in colonial socialities. She purports that representations of "otherness" are essentially unstable, observable in ambivalence, contradictions, ambiguities, and alterations within and between discourses. Colonial situations did not produce mere echoes from the metropolis but instead yielded diverse discursive performances emerging out of local contingencies.

Although the examined representations occur within, or just prior to, the institution of colonialism in the islands, Unstable Images is a perceptive look at the processes through which people formulate and express motivating separations between themselves and others. It will prompt readers to rethink previous conceptions about the colonial encounter and contribute substantially to postcolonial debates. ... Read more

13. Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by Paige West
Paperback: 352 Pages (2006-01-01)
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A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program—mostly ngo workers—and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain. West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology. In the end, the divergent nature of each group’s expectations led to disappointment for both.

West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area—including ideas of space, place, environment, and society—was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.

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14. Building a Nation in Papua New Guinea: Views of the Post-Independence Generation
Paperback: 390 Pages (2003-01)
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15. The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics. (book reviews): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Mark Turner
 Digital: 3 Pages (1997-01-01)
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Title: The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics. (book reviews)
Author: Mark Turner
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: v43Issue: n1Page: p94(2)

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16. Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Clive Moore
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 633 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Clive Moore
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 49Issue: 1Page: 138(2)

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17. Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 37.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Clive Moore
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Title: Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 37.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Clive Moore
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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18. My gun, my brother, the world of the Papua New Guinea colonial police 1920-1960.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Max Quanchi
 Digital: 3 Pages (2000-03-01)
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: My gun, my brother, the world of the Papua New Guinea colonial police 1920-1960.(Review) (book review)
Author: Max Quanchi
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 46Issue: 1Page: 142

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19. Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea, 1891-1975.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
by Clive Moore
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Title: Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea, 1891-1975.(Review) (book review)
Author: Clive Moore
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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20. Peter Donovan. For Youth and the Poor: History of the De La Salle Brothers in Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand 1906-2000.(Book Review): An article ... the Australian Catholic Historical Society
by Mary Kneipp
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Title: Peter Donovan. For Youth and the Poor: History of the De La Salle Brothers in Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand 1906-2000.(Book Review)
Author: Mary Kneipp
Publication: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society (Magazine/Journal)
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