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La culture du développement
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ISBN: 2869780028 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *4 Publisher: Dakar CODESRIA/FOCSIV

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Political order and the plural structure of society
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ISBN: 1555406408 Year: 1991 Publisher: Atlanta Scholar's press

Twisted histories, altered contexts : representing the Chambri in a world system
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ISBN: 0521395879 0521400120 1139166433 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centres of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in world processes of social and cultural change, and attempt to create a 'collective biography' which conveys the intelligibility and significance of the twentieth-century experience of these Papua New Guineans whom they have come to know well. This biography consists of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about Chambri who are negotiating their objectives while entangled in systemic change and confronting Western representations of modernization and development.

Identity through history : living stories in a Solomon Islands society
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ISBN: 0521401720 0521533325 0511621892 0511878729 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.


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European immigration and ethnicity in Latin America : a bibliography
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ISBN: 0901145726 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Institute of Latin American Studies


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Las entidas étnicas de la Meseta Norte de Hispania en época preromana
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ISBN: 8477622256 9788477622253 Year: 1991 Publisher: Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid,

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