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Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown" (Hardcover)
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Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown" (Hardcover)
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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. The complex social and cultural changes that
occurred during the century after Europeans first arrived in the
area have led Karavarans to wonder about-and to assert-who they are
and who they might become as citizens of a developing country that
is striving to create national coherence across some seven hundred
linguistic and cultural groups. Focusing on how the Karavarans'
long-term preoccupation with identity and worth has played out in
various social contexts, Errington and Gewertz convey a grounded
sense of how these people have actually lived and dealt 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. Errington and Gewertz's
discussions convey a perspective that simultaneously makes both
"other" and "ourselves" more understandable and readily comparable
as culturally constructed, historically contingent, and mutually
determinative. This book will be of interest to anthropologists,
sociologists, Oceanists, and all scholars concerned with questions
of national identity.
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