Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts Representing the Chambri in the World System

Name: Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts Representing the Chambri in the World System
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ISBN: 9780521395878

ISBN-10: 0521395879

ISBN-13: 9780521395878

Edition: 1991

Authors: Deborah B. Gewertz, Frederick K. Errington

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Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centers of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in world processes of social and cultural change, and attempt to create a "collective biography" that conveys the intelligibility and significance of the twentieth century experience of these Papua New Guineans whom they have come to know well. This biography consists of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about Chambri…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/13/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: On writing the Chambri



The new traditionalism: tourism and its transformation



The initiation: making men in 1987



The town



Western representations at home



The written word



Negotiating the state


Conclusion: interlocking stories, intersecting lives


References


Index