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Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System
Deborah B. Gewertz
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Description for Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System
Paperback. A "collective biography" consisting of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about the Chambri people who are negotiating their objectives while entangled in systemic change and confronting Western representations of modernization and development. Num Pages: 280 pages, 27 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521395878
SKU
V9780521395878
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Reviews for Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in the World System
"What [the authors] have done best is to offer us a wealth of poignant insights into the ironies of life in the Chambri world of intersecting worlds. The altered contexts of development have indeed given Chambri histories new, often unpredictable twists that make fascinating reading." Anthropologica "...wonderful, lively, and readable accounts....this is a wonderful, sensitive, and rich ... Read more