A True Child of Papua New Guinea

A True Child of Papua New Guinea
Author: Maggie Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476677034

Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to Melka Amp Jara, a woman of the highlands, and Patrick Leahy, brother of Australian explorers Michael and Daniel Leahy, who were among the first Australian explorers to encounter people in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, during an expedition in search for gold. Maggie's life serves as a window into the complex social and cultural transformations experienced during the early years of the Australian administration in Papua New Guinea and the first three decades after independence. This ethnography--started as an autobiography and completed by Rosita Henry after Maggie's death in 2009--tells Maggie's story and the stories of those whose lives she touched. Their recollections of Maggie Wilson offer insights into life in Papua New Guinea today.

Birds of New Guinea

Birds of New Guinea
Author: Thane K. Pratt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2015
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0691095639

Previous edition by Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, and Dale A. Zimmerman.

Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Papua New Guinea's Last Place
Author: Adam Reed
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Prison discipline
ISBN: 9781571816948

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.

Making Law in Papua New Guinea

Making Law in Papua New Guinea
Author: Bruce L. Ottley
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531005504

"In the waning days of colonialism in Papua New Guinea, much of the rhetoric from local leaders pushing for self-determination focused on replacing the imposed colonial legal system with one that reflected local customs, understandings, relationships, and dispute settlement techniques-in other words, a "uniquely Melanesian jurisprudence." After independence in 1975, however, that aim faded or began to be seen as an impossible objective, and PNG is left with a largely Western legal system. In this book, the authors-who were all directly involved in law teaching, law reform, and judging during that period-explore the potent and enduring grip of colonialism on law and politics long after the colonial regime has been formally disbanded. Combining original historical and legal research, engagement with the scholarly literature of dependency theory and postcolonial studies, and personal observation, interviews, and experience, Making Law in Papua New Guinea offers compelling insights into the many reasons why postcolonial nations remain imprisoned in colonial laws, institutions, and attitudes"--

Asmat Art

Asmat Art
Author: Dirk Smidt
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1462909647

Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.

From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive

From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
Author: Paige West
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822351501

West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.

Birds of New Guinea

Birds of New Guinea
Author: Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 069116424X

"Gazetteer of New Guinea ornithology [by] Jennifer L. Mandeville and William S. Peckover": pages 560-632.

MacArthur's Jungle War

MacArthur's Jungle War
Author: Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

His book tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of technology, tactics, and army-navy cooperation but also how the New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key offensive.

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies

The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
Author: D. K. Feil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1987-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521334233

D. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.

Public Health in Papua New Guinea

Public Health in Papua New Guinea
Author: Donald Denoon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2002-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521523028

A study of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care in colonial Papua New Guinea.