The Chimbu : A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands

ISBN-13: 9780415330527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 151 str.

Paula Brown

Opis

This volume illustrates that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Chimbu View of Past and Future 3. The Kinds of Variation and Change 4. Chimbu Pre-History 5. Chimbu's First Contact with Europeans 6. Domestic and Local Groups 7. Groups and Segments 8. Big Men and Small 9. Cycles and Transactions 10. Strife 11. Warfare 12. The Process of Change 13. The Forces of Change 14. Material and Technological Change 15. Economic Change 16. Local Leadership and Activities 17. Conflict Today 18. Kondom's Kingdom 19. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

O autorze

Paula Brown