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Book They Came to Matupit

Download or read book They Came to Matupit written by Mary R. Mennis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Came to Matupit

Download or read book They Came to Matupit written by Mary R. Mennis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Matupit

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  • Author : A. L. Epstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520324315
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Matupit written by A. L. Epstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

Book In the Midst of Life

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  • Author : A. L. Epstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1992-02-12
  • ISBN : 9780520911642
  • Pages : 334 pages

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.

Book Not the Way It Really Was

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  • Author : Klaus Neumann
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1992-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780824813338
  • Pages : 340 pages

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

Book Stitches in Time

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  • Author : David Watters
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-08-23
  • ISBN : 1453554939
  • Pages : 802 pages

Download or read book Stitches in Time written by David Watters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the history of surgery in Papua New Guinea from the early 1800s until the beginning of the 21st Century. It spans the period from the first European contact to the emergence of highly educated sub-specialist national surgeons. It tells the story from the first impressions of ships surgeons to the introduction and development of surgery. Between 1870 and 1950 the country and the lives of its peoples changed greatly as a result of exploration, evangelisation, colonisation and war. The history traces the surgical challenges encountered as well as the colourful characters who provided the health services run by missions, companies, governments and armies. After World War II PNG progressed politically from an Australian Administered Territory to become an Independent Nation. Within a generation it had trained its own doctors and surgeons. The history is set within the context of tropical pathologies, introduced diseases, surgical progress and the lives of the medics who have contributed to the Stori bilong kamapim long dokta bilong katim man (The history of surgery).

Book Return to Volcano Town

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  • Author : R. Wally Johnson
  • Publisher : ANU Press
  • Release : 2023-10-24
  • ISBN : 1760466042
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Return to Volcano Town written by R. Wally Johnson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive volcanic eruptions that in 1937–43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They reassess this disaster in light of the prodigious amount of new scientific and disaster-management work that has been undertaken there since about 1971, when strong tectonic earthquakes shook the area. Comparisons are made in particular with volcanic eruptions in 1994–2014, when half of Rabaul town was destroyed and then abandoned. A striking feature of historical eruptive periods at Rabaul is the near‑simultaneous activity at Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes, on either side of Rabaul Harbour. Such rare ‘twin’ eruptions are interpreted to be the result of a common magma reservoir beneath the harbour. This interpretation has implications for ongoing hazard and risk assessments and for volcano monitoring in the area.

Book The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Download or read book The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots written by Keir Martin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

Book History of Number

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  • Author : Kay Owens
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-10-24
  • ISBN : 3319454838
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book History of Number written by Kay Owens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume presents an ecocultural and embodied perspective on understanding numbers and their history in indigenous communities. The book focuses on research carried out in Papua New Guinea and Oceania, and will help educators understand humanity's use of numbers, and their development and change. The authors focus on indigenous mathematics education in the early years and shine light on the unique processes and number systems of non-European styled cultural classrooms. This new perspective for mathematics education challenges educators who have not heard about the history of number outside of Western traditions, and can help them develop a rich cultural competence in their own practice and a new vision of foundational number concepts such as large numbers, groups, and systems. Featured in this invaluable resource are some data and analyses that chief researcher Glendon Angove Lean collected while living in Papua New Guinea before his death in 1995. Among the topics covered: The diversity of counting system cycles, where they were established, and how they may have developed. A detailed exploration of number systems other than base 10 systems including: 2-cycle, 5-cycle, 4- and 6-cycle systems, and body-part tally systems. Research collected from major studies such as Geoff Smith's and Sue Holzknecht’s studies of Morobe Province's multiple counting systems, Charly Muke's study of counting in the Wahgi Valley in the Jiwaka Province, and Patricia Paraide's documentation of the number and measurement knowledge of her Tolai community. The implications of viewing early numeracy in the light of this book’s research, and ways of catering to diversity in mathematics education. In this volume Kay Owens draws on recent research from diverse fields such as linguistics and archaeology to present their exegesis on the history of number reaching back ten thousand years ago. Researchers and educators interested in the history of mathematical sciences will find History of Number: Evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania to be an invaluable resource.

Book Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country  The Case of Papua New Guinea

Download or read book Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country The Case of Papua New Guinea written by Patricia Paraide and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries does make it into research journals from time to time, but these articles only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea’s multicultural society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of mathematics education that have been impacted by policies, research, circumstances and other influences, with particular emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind in the education research literature as an in-depth record and critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post / decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy, technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.

Book Memoirs of the Revival in the South Pacific

Download or read book Memoirs of the Revival in the South Pacific written by Rev. J.S. Pasterkamp and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded with the ‘Companion of the Star of Melanesia’ for their distinguished service to the islands of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the late Rev. John Pasterkamp shares his firsthand account of the revival which transformed the islands of Melanesia with thousands of people coming to faith and over 400 churches being planted. From the wilderness of Australia’s Cape York peninsula, to tropical Papua New Guinea, Rev. Pasterkamp will take you on a journey of surviving tribal wars, malaria infested swamplands, demonised witchdoctors and merciless jungles all for the sake of the gospel. His firsthand accounts of healings, deliverance and radical salvation that impacted every spectrum of society - from workers on rural plantations to government officials. This autobiography talks about the price paid in raw courage, dedication and self-sacrifice to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ and see revival come, transforming nations.

Book George Brown  D  D   Pioneer missionary and Explorer

Download or read book George Brown D D Pioneer missionary and Explorer written by George Brown and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early years and the call -- Samoa -- New Britain -- Pioneer work in New Britain and New Ireland -- Some incidents -- A furlough, and second term of residence in New Britain -- Troublous days, and a brighter morning -- Third term of residence in New Britain -- Tongan affairs -- Pioneering in New Guinea -- Solomon Islands, Fiji, and eventide.

Book George Brown  D D

Download or read book George Brown D D written by George Brown and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian National Bibliography

Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dimdim in Paradise

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  • Author : Andy Fletcher
  • Publisher : Balboa Press
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 1504324862
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book A Dimdim in Paradise written by Andy Fletcher and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revised and edited version of the original Book “A Dimdim in Paradise” published by Balboa Press in 2014. I went to Papua New Guinea with Mining Giant Conzinc Rio Tinto in 1970 to work in their Bougainville Mine and fell hopelessly in love with the country, and it’s people. This book follows my journey through the thirty-six years I lived in-country, teaching in an agricultural college, vocational training centres and the fisheries college. I attended six-to-six dances deep in the jungle, hid under a table in a tavern that was attacked by warring tribesmen during a tribal fight. I helped remove the Apartheid system, and lived for weeks at a time in the villages of the idyllic Duke of York islands.

Book Religions of Melanesia

Download or read book Religions of Melanesia written by Garry Trompf and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.