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This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville
movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform
traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world
of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first
extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly sixty years, this
book will be of particular interest to Melanesian specialists.
This is a long-term ethnographic study of the Hahalis Welfare
Society (a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to
maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of
autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic
dependency). The study points beyond the established cargo-cult
theory in anthropology and expands the concept of culture as an
outcome of historical practice, conscious analysis, human passions
and political struggle. The dialectical relationship between
traditional and contemporary forms of power as described through
Buka experience breaks down Western categorical barriers that seem
to isolate the past from the present, the personal from the
political and the local form the global. The narrative explores
these themes against the background of colonial and post-colonial
government, missionisation, politics of ritual, litigation and
legitimacy, and the Bougainville assertion of independence.
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