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Drie Asmat-dialecten
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ISBN: 9004286063 9004286683 9789004286689 9789004286061 Year: 2015 Publisher: Brill

De dekolonisatie van Indonesië: feiten en beschouwingen
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ISBN: 9001802893 Year: 1976 Publisher: Groningen Tjeenk Willink


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The linguistic situation in the islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea
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ISBN: 9004285997 9004286594 Year: 1961 Publisher: Brill


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From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities
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ISBN: 9781925022438 1925022439 1925022439 9781925022421 1925022420 Year: 2015 Publisher: ANU Press

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There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the ‘stone-age’ is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’ examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent ‘stone-age’ image meets the practices and ideologies of the ‘real-time’ – a popular expression referring to immediate digital communication. The volume is thus essentially occupied with discourses of time and space and how they inform questions of hierarchy and possibilities for equality. Papuans are increasingly mobile, and seeking to rework inherited ideas, institutions and technologies, while also coming up against palpable limits on what can be imagined or achieved, secured or defended. This volume investigates some of these trajectories for the cultural logics and social or political structures that shape them. The chapters are highly ethnographic, based on in-depth research conducted in diverse spaces within and beyond Papua. These contributions explore topics ranging from hip hop to HIV/ AIDS to historicity, filling much-needed conceptual and ethnographic lacunae in the study of West Papua.


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Society of others
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ISBN: 1282360892 9786612360893 0520943325 9780520943322 0520256867 9780520256866 9780520256859 0520256859 9781282360891 6612360895 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.

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