ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02550.x

年代:1996

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ABSTRACTRecent approaches to the ethnography of Papua New Guinea stress the historicity of local cultures and their encompassment in larger fields of relations. In this paper I consider the historical and cultural background to the emergence of the ‘Min’ as a novel ethnic designation among the Mountain Ok peoples of the Fly‐Sepik headwaters. While Min identity draws much of its impetus from responses to mining operations and resistance to provincial governments, it is also clear that it grows out of a complex interaction between pre‐existing cultural identities, a history of colonial administration and Christian evangelism. Emerging at the intersection of local and global processes, Min identity constitutes a regionalization of ethnicity which has led to agitation for the creation of a Min province, producing a movement that may outlive its immediate politic

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02551.x

年代:1996

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ABSTRACTAnthropologists have come to realize that even the most ‘traditional’ Melanesian practices and ideologies may be historically shaped by the people's experiences within encompassing regional systems. This article examines the reshaping of local understandings of the village among the Maisin people of Oro Province over the past century. I distinguish three contexts within which Maisin notions of the village have been formed: colonial models of village government imposed before the Second World War; Christian village cooperatives in the post‐war colonial period; and village meetings in the 1980s. The paper shows that the idea of the village has a complex evolution, shaped within overlapping dialogues between villagers and significant outsiders and between elder and younger village leaders who have had differing experiences of the outside world and the place of their own community with

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02552.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02553.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02554.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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Islanders of the South: Production, Kinship and Ideology in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga. ByPaul van der Grijp.Translated by Peter Mason. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1993. Pp. ix +264. US$29.

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02556.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY