A faraway, familiar place [electronic resource] : an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea / Michael French Smith.
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TextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, 2013.Description: xi, 229 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): - Smith, Michael French -- Travel -- Papua New Guinea -- Kragur
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Kragur (Papua New Guinea) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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- DU744.35.K33 S65 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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