A faraway, familiar place
Subtitle: an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea
By: Michael French Smith
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780824836863
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Social life and customs; Travel; Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people); Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: An eccentric longing; title: Thoroughly modern Kragur; title: Hot times on Kairiru Island; title: Wu wei wu; title: Is Kragur poor?; title: Ancestors on paper; title: Meetings and magic; title: Preferential ballots and primeval brothers; title: A clean election and its messy aftermath; title: Life goes on; title: God the father, the son, his mom, and the holy spirit; title: No two ways about it; title: The long good-bye; title: One more look.