Articulating change in the "last unknown"
By: Frederick K. Errington and Deborah B. Gewertz.
Contributors: Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-
Series: Studies in the ethnographic imagination
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: East New Britain Province (Papua New Guinea)
Description: This remarkable book explores questions of identity and value posed by people living on or near the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New Guinea. Focusing on how the Karavarans' long-term preoccupation with identity and worth has played out in various social contexts within this rather small place, Errington and Gewertz convey a grounded sense of how these people actually live and engage with such widely significant issues as ethnic diversity and the development of national unity.

The authors present a historical and ethnographic analysis that, in its scope and mastery of detail, does justice to the complexity and significance of change in a colonial and postcolonial world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-183) and index.
Chiefly a collection of previously published material.
Table of contents: title: 1. Resistance through emulation; title: 2. Dueling currencies in East New Britain; title: 3. From darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee; title: 4. First contact with God; title: 5. The triumph of capitalism in East New Britain?