Download or read book Papua New Guinea National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Index to Fairy Tales 1978 1986 Including Folklore Legends and Myths in Collections written by Norma Olin Ireland and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland and Sprug analyze 262 collections published between 1978 and 1986, with some 2,000 subject headings, plus copious cross-references.

Download or read book In the Midst of Life written by A. L. Epstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-02-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. In his new book, A. L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions. By investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs people's conduct, he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis.

Download or read book C R I S World history written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When the Moon was Big and Other Legends from New Guinea written by Ulli Beier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four folktales told in their own words by students from Secondary schools and Training colleges all over New Guinea.

Download or read book Not the Way It Really Was written by Klaus Neumann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies." --Reviews in Anthropology

Download or read book Oral History written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Guinea Diaries 1871 1883 written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklaĭ and published by Madang, P.N.G. : Kristen Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non Aboriginal material.

Download or read book The Mana Annual of Creative Writing written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Mountains of the Islands written by R. Wally Johnson and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.

Download or read book New Guinea written by Clive Moore and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Guinea, the world's largest tropical island, is a land of great contrasts, ranging from small glaciers on its highest peaks to broad mangrove swamps in its lowlands and hundreds of smaller islands and coral atolls along its coasts. Divided between two nations, the island and its neighboring archipelagos form Indonesia’s Papua Province (or Irian Jaya) and the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, both former European colonies. Most books on New Guinea have been guided by these and other divisions, separating east from west, prehistoric from historic, precontact from postcontact, colonial from postcolonial. This is the first work to consider New Guinea and its 40,000-year history in its entirety. The volume opens with a look at the Melanesian region and argues that interlocking exchange systems and associated human interchanges are the "invisible government" through which New Guinea societies operate. Succeeding chapters review the history of encounters between outsiders and New Guinea's populations. They consider the history of Malay involvement with New Guinea over the past two thousand years, demonstrating the extent to which west New Guinea in particular was incorporated into Malay trading and raiding networks prior to Western contact. The impact of colonial rule, economic and social change, World War II, decolonization, and independence are discussed in the final chapter.

Download or read book Pacific Islands Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-07 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of Volcanic Eruptions written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Malaguna Road written by Sarah Johnston Chinnery and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian anthropologist E.W.P. Chinnery took his young Irish bride, Sarah, to Port Moresby in 1921, she did not imagine that the island of New Guinea-one of the most extraordinary regions on earth-would become her home for the next 16 years. Already a keen photographer, Sarah began recording her experiences in a daily diary.

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Bulletin written by Christopher G. Newhall and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book End of the Line written by Robert F. McKillop and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea is commonly thought to be a land without railways. At the very least, railways do not immediately come to mind as a topic for historical research in Papua New Guinea. Nevertheless, we set out to document and record something of the history of local railways in 1971, initially as individual projects. Inevitably, our interest in the topic of railways brought us together and we have been working collaboratively on our research since 1980. At first the task was to identify and document the railways which have operated in Papua New Guinea. To our surprise, we now have records of some 150 railway lines, many of them small hand-pushed operations from a jetty to a copra store or around a sawmill. Others have yielded fascinating stories of more substantial enterprises and the endeavours of colonial pioneers at the frontier. As we brought the material together we began to realise that we not only had stories about small railway operations around the country, but we also had the basis for a new look at some basic elements of Papua New Guinea economic history. Through the story of railways we had identified important themes which helped us learn about the economic conditions of today from the experience of the past.