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This article is situated within the discussion started in 1962 by John Barnes, whose observations on the fluidity of social organization in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea raised the question, what binds together a certain number of individuals belonging to distinct kinship groups? Is it defense of a common territory? Is it participation in initiation rituals which institute a general order between genders and between generations? Or is it, as in the Big‐men societies, participation in cycles of ceremonial exchanges which involve all the local groups of a same region?These questions have been discussed by various authors: De Lepervanche (1967–8), A. Strathern (1968, 1970), and Feil (1981, 1984) to mention just a few.The fabric of Baruya society is generated by two principles: direct exchange of women and an elaborate system of male and female initiations. The Baruya share the same culture and the same language with their neighbours and enemies, but they distinguish and define themselves by claiming a common territory conquered at the expense of local groups and by the fact that their women circulate primarily between kinship groups residing on this territory. However, from time to time these two principles are transgressed by individuals or segments of lineages who betray their kinship or tribal solidarities, generating situations which reshape the internal composition of the Baruya tribe and its relationships with its neighbours. I intend by analysing the mechanisms of these betrayals to throw some light on this key‐moment in the dynamics of New Guinea Highlands soci

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02320.x

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The article concerns the Shore/Freeman controversy about the termsagaandamio. Shore seesagaas the Samoan category for ‘culture’ andamioas the category for ‘nature’ in the Hobbesian sense. Freeman says that Shore has his terms backwards. I argue that Freeman is correct in his assertion thatagacannot be equated with ‘culture‘. However, Freeman wrongly definesagaas innate essence. In factagais the term for identity, which in Samoa is external and social.Amiois best understood as a derivative of that part of the self which Samoans call thelotoand which we call s

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02321.x

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Even before the Republic of Indonesia gained control over the territory of West New Guinea (with the controversial U.N.‐supervised Act of Free Choice of 1969), the government had systematically tried to forge new identities for the indigenous peoples, as Indonesians rather than Melanesians. This acculturation process has aimed at incorporating the West Papuan population into the Indonesian nation‐state through the education system, the media, economic development and transmigration. The process, ‘Indonesianization’, is predicated on the assumption that inculcation of the Indonesian world‐view through contact with what are considered ‘more advanced’ and ‘civilized’ Javanese, will ultimately strengthen national unity and allow greater exploitation of the rich resources in the region. The influx of Asian newcomers, many of whom have taken over the administrative, commercial and industrial spheres in West Papua, has marginalized urban and rural Papuans from economic development. In consequence West Papuans are developing a sense of their own racial and cultural distinctiveness and asserting their rights to greater participation in decision‐making and

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02322.x

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The Law ofthe Land. ByHenry Reynolds.Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 1987. Pp. xii + 225. Price: $12.95

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02323.x

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Feasts of Honour. Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands.By Toby Alice VolkmanChicago: University of Illinois Press. 1985. Pp. xii + 216. Maps, photographs.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02324.x

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Sorcerer and Witch in Melanesia.Edited by Michelle StephenMelbourne: Melbourne University Press in association with La Trobe University Research Centre for South‐West Pacific Studies: 1987. Pp. x + 318. Price: $27.5

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02325.x

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The Situation of Children In Papua New Guinea.By Patricia TownsendBoroko: Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research. 1985. Pp. 135. Price: P.N.G. Kina 6.00.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02326.x

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Rom: An Aboriginal Ritual of Diplomacy.Edited by S. WildCanberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1986. Pp. xiii + 102.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02327.x

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The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya.By Maurice GodelierCambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Pp. xv + 251.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02328.x

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Initiative and Initiation: A Cargo‐Cult Type Movement in the Sepik Against its Background in Traditional Village Religion.By P.F. GeschSt. Augustin: Studia Instituti Anthropos. 1985. Pp. xv + 347 + plates. Price: DM 6

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02329.x

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