Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison 1571816941, 9781571816948

Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison 9781782381815

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fie

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Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital 9780822376668

This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua Ne

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Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea 9780857450951

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a con

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Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea 0295747609, 9780295747606

Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guin

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Landscapes of Relations and Belonging: Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea 9780857450340

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial f

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

A Faraway Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is for readers seeking an excursion deep into li

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A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea) 9783961104154, 9783985540730

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Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast 9780824893422

Building and Remembering is a multidisciplinary study of how memory works in relation to the material past. Based on col

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The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences 9780790571928

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Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town 9781789202229

Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytell

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