Author: Errington, Frederick Karl ; & Gewertz, Deborah B.
Title: Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown
Description: Boulder (CO), Westview Press, (1995). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xvii,196 pp. PAPERBACK.. ISBN: 0813324548. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ 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.

Keywords: 0813324548 Melanesian Ethnology, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, East New Britain, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, ,