A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea 9780824839000

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. An Eccentric Longing
Chapter 2. Thoroughly Modern Kragur
Chapter 3. Hot Times on Kairiru Island
Chapter 4. Wu Wei Wu
Chapter 5. Is Kragur Poor?
Chapter 6. Ancestors on Paper
Chapter 7. Meetings and Magic
Chapter 8. Preferential Ballots and Primeval Brothers
Chapter 9. A Clean Election and Its Messy Aftermath
Chapter 10. Life Goes On
Chapter 11. God the Father, the Son, His Mother, and the Holy Spirit
Chapter 12. No Two Ways about It
Chapter 13. The Long Good-bye
Chapter 14. One More Look
Appendix Tok Pisin and Tok Pisin Pronunciation
Notes
References
Index
About the Author

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