Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts

Representing the Chambri in the World System

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ID23399571
AuthorsDeborah Gewertz (Amherst College), Deborah B Gewertz, Frederick Errington, Frederick K Errington
Year1991
Publication date1991-06-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTwisted Histories, Altered Contexts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139166430
OpenAlexW4234459783
Open LibraryOL34477458M
ISBN9781139166430
LanguageEN
Citations received87

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.

Art history · Autonomy · Biography · Ethnology · Modernization theory · Negotiation · New guinea · Political science · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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