A faraway, familiar place [electronic resource] : an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea / Michael French Smith.
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- 9780824839000
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Smith, Michael French -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea -- Kragur
- 305.899/5 23
- DU744.35.K33 S65 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
An eccentric longing -- Thoroughly modern Kragur -- Hot times on Kairiru Island -- Wu wei wu -- Is Kragur poor? -- Ancestors on paper -- Meetings and magic -- Preferential ballots and primeval brothers -- A clean election and its messy aftermath -- Life goes on -- God the father, the son, his mom, and the holy spirit -- No two ways about it -- The long good-bye -- One more look.
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