Black Powder, White Magic

Actions speak louder than words", they say -especially if you are holding a gun. As a Euro-American I take this to mean there is something self-evidently coercive about the use and effects of firearms beyond their ability to wound and kill. And, as a social scientist, I recognise that the same is usually held to be true with regard to the deployment of "physical force" generally. Where non-Western people's responses to tokens of Western culture such as money, Christian missionisation, literacy, Hershey bars, Adidas tennis shoes, rock music and the internet seem necessarily variable and unpredictable, owing at least partly to the choices afforded by people's pre-existing cultural schema, physical force by definition allows little scope for subjects' volition

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• Brokers and boundaries

  Allison Cadzow, Tiffany Shellam et al.•Brokers and boundaries•2016

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• From New Guinea 1872-78 to Genova 2004

  Open Access•Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone•Journal de la Société des…•2011

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• Before the horror

  David E Stannard•Before the horror•1989

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• The Melanesians of British New Guinea

  C G Seligmann•Bulletin of the American…•1910

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• An honourable man

  Michele Stephen•Journal of Pacific History•1979

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• New Guinea

  K O L Burridge, Gavin Souter et al.•Geographical Journal•1964

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• Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate

  E Im T, A W Monckton•Geographical Journal•1921

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• "The Mekeo "man of sorrow

  Open Access•Michele Stephens, Michele Stephen•American Ethnologist•1996

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