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12/13/2017 Obituary Records
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12/14/2017 Obituary Records
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ON BEING MODERN PEOPLE: ABANDONMENT OF PIG HUSBANDRY IN HAIVARO, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Get PDFThe abandonment of pig husbandry by several communities in Papua New Guinea has been explained in terms of hygiene, Christianity, and economics or combinations of all three. At Haivaro—a small village in the lowlands of northwestern Gulf Province—these three factors were reinforced by an emerging desire to act, and be seen, as “modern.” A progressive decrease in social occasions that entailed the exchange of pigs or the sharing of pork, combined with increased availability of new modern items, led Haivaro people to revalue their world in monetary terms. In this process, they developed a sense that some of their past practices were antithetical to their desire to be modern. In this context, and for this reason, they chose to abandon pig husbandry
BEING ROTUMAN ON THE INTERNET
Get PDFThis paper is written to show how Rotuman cultural identity is affected and expressed on the internet
INTRODUCTION: TĀ-VĀ (TIME-SPACE): THE BIRTH OF AN INDIGENOUS MOANA THEORY
Get PDFAn introduction to the special issue of the Pacific Studies Journal themed, TĀ-VĀ (TIME-SPACE): THEORY OF REALITY
01/09/2017 Obituary Records
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02/22/2017 Obituary Records
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