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Geography and history -- Takü society as the locus for musicking -- Religious contexts of music -- Processes of Takü music -- The nature of Takü song -- The nature of Takü dance.
Collection of essays by the post-independence generation of PNG that articulate a vision for the future while at the same time providing an insight into the last 25 years since independence. A state-of-the- nation assessment that also addresses future development.
For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers - and by extension, men - actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which m…
This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975). During this period, the academic and political understandings of development consolidated and informed Australian attemp…
Among the Wola people in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea, such concepts as capitalism and market state were, and in many senses continue to be, alien. For these people, distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday requirements are the consumers: garden produce…
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…