Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea 9780824865450

Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the north coast of Papua New

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English Pages 234 [233] Year 2002

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Nostalgia, Dreams, Progress, and Development
Chapter 2. Finding Kragur
Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Ancestors
Chapter 4. Food, Money, and the Strangeness of Capitalism
Chapter 5. Money and the Moral Puzzle of Prosperity
Chapter 6. To Papua New Guinea for the World Bank
Chapter 7. Weekend on Kairiru
Chapter 8. Free Ticket to Paradise
Chapter 9. The Key to the Village, Structure, and Strife
Chapter 10. Parish Bureaucracy and the Holy Spirit
Chapter 11. Money
Chapter 12. New Knowledge, New Problems
Chapter 13. Worlds Apart
Chapter 14. Something to Hold on To
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Tok Pisin and Kairiru Terms
References Cited
Index
About the Author

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