Pathways of change: Socio-cultural change among the highlanders of western New Guinea

Pathways of change: Socio-cultural change among the highlanders of western New Guinea
ISBN-10
2491338025
ISBN-13
9782491338022
Category
Social Science
Pages
182
Language
English
Published
2020-05-18
Publisher
pacific-credo Publications
Author
Anton Ploeg

Description

This monograph is a comparative study of eight ways of life of highlanders in West Papua. It consists of ten sections: an introduction, a conclusion and eight ethnographic chapters, each dealing with a separate way of life. I chose this presentation since I wanted to make clear the individuality of each of them. In the book I attempt to trace the changes in these ways of life as they were occurring just previous to the settlement of colonial outsiders. This attempt proved feasible since for seven of them first contact accounts are available.

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