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Book A True Child of Papua New Guinea

Download or read book A True Child of Papua New Guinea written by Maggie Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Children of Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Children of Papua New Guinea written by Elizabeth Jones-Ketner and published by . This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State of the World s Children

Download or read book State of the World s Children written by UNICEF. and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.

Book Crisis in Paradise

Download or read book Crisis in Paradise written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea written by Barbara Senft and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education within their `own little community’ until they reach the age of seven years. During this time children enjoy much autonomy and independence. Attempts of parental education are confined to a minimum. However, parents use subtle means to raise their children. Educational ideologies are manifest in narratives and in speeches addressed to children. They provide guidelines for their integration into the Trobrianders’ “balanced society” which is characterized by cooperation and competition. It does not allow individual accumulation of wealth – surplus property gained has to be redistributed – but it values the fame acquired by individuals in competitive rituals. Fame is not regarded as threatening the balance of their society.

Book The Situation of Children in Papua New Guinea

Download or read book The Situation of Children in Papua New Guinea written by Patricia K. Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Until Yesterday

Download or read book The World Until Yesterday written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.

Book Peace Child

Download or read book Peace Child written by Don Richardson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cannibals to Christ-Followers--A True Story In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The "peace child" became the secret to unlocking a value system that had existed through generations. This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and a social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel has impacted the Sawi people, this missionary classic will inspire a new generation of readers who need to hear this remarkable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.

Book Unbelievable Pictures and Facts About Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Unbelievable Pictures and Facts About Papua New Guinea written by Olivia Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Kids Presents...Papua New Guinea - Unbelievable Pictures and Facts about Papua New Guinea. Is it expensive to travel and do things in Papua New Guinea? Do the people in Papua New Guinea have regular access to clean water? In this book you will explore the wonderful world of Papua New Guinea, finding the answers to these questions and so many more. Complete with incredible pictures to keep even the youngest of children captivated, you will all embark on a little journey into the great unknown. In school our children aren't taught in a way that makes them curious and wants to learn. I want to change that! This book will show your children just how interesting the world is and help ignite a passion for learning. Your children will learn how to: Become curious about the world around them. Find motivation to learn. Use their free time to discover more about the world-and have fun while doing so! And much more!

Book Meeting the Needs of the Pre school Child in Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Meeting the Needs of the Pre school Child in Papua New Guinea written by Moriori Iewa and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Children  Women and Families in Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Children Women and Families in Papua New Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Huli People Of Papua New Guinea

Download or read book The Huli People Of Papua New Guinea written by Collette Weil Parinello and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huli people of Papua New Guinea are a proud culture with strong traditions. But the Huli people face threats into the future. This is an engaging book for upper primary readers. Proceeds from this sale benefit not for profit organisation Library For All, helping children around the world learn to read.

Book Welcome To Papua New Guinea Kids Travel Journal

Download or read book Welcome To Papua New Guinea Kids Travel Journal written by Papua New Guinea Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a fun, easy and entertaining Kids Travel Journal for your Trip to Papua New Guinea? This Travel Journal is specifically developed for children. It is easy to fill out and will be really entertaining for kids even on longer trips. Other details include: 120 pages, 6x9, cream paper and a beautiful matte-finished cover. Make sure to look at our other products for more Travel journals.Just search for the country you are looking for + publishing

Book Between Culture and Fantasy

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  • Author : Gillian Gillison
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1993-07
  • ISBN : 9780226293806
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Between Culture and Fantasy written by Gillian Gillison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms. Gillison shows how the themes expressed in Gimi myths—especially sexual hostility and an obsession with menstrual blood—are dramatized in the elaborate public rituals that accompany marriage, death, and other life crises. The separate myths of Gimi women and men seem to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. The sexes cast blame in the veiled imagery of myth and then play out their debate in joint rituals, cooperating in shows of conflict and resolution that leave men undefeated and accord women the greater blame for misfortune.

Book Kastom Stori  Sene Gori

Download or read book Kastom Stori Sene Gori written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Toea, a young Papua New Guinean boy, in his attempts to capture and preserve stories that have been passed on from generation to generation. This book contains stories and images that were written and drawn by the children from the schools in the LNG Project Area. These children participated in the "Kastom Stori-Sene Gori contest" - a contest designed to capture the oral tradition of storytelling.