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Author:
Smith, Michael French, author.
Title:
A faraway, familiar place : an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea / Michael French Smith.
Publisher:
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Smith, Michael French--Travel--Kragur.--Kragur.
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs--21st century.
Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people)--Economic conditions--21st century.
Kragur (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs--21st century.
Kragur (Papua New Guinea)--Economic conditions--21st century.
Kairiru (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)--Mœurs et coutumes--21e siècle.
Kairiru (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)--Conditions économiques--21e siècle.
Economic history.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Papua New Guinea--Kragur.
Ethnologie
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Soziokultureller Wandel
Kragur
Kairiru Island
2000-2099
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Contents:
An eccentric longing -- Thoroughly modern Kragur -- Hot times on Kairiru Island -- Wu wei wu -- Is Kragur poor? -- Ancestors on paper -- Meetings and magic -- Preferential ballots and primeval brothers -- A clean election and its messy aftermath -- Life goes on -- God the father, the son, his mom, and the holy spirit -- No two ways about it -- The long good-bye -- One more look.
ISBN:
082485344X
9780824853440
0824836863
9780824836863
OCLC:
(OCoLC)818866132
LCCN:
2012044805
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

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