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AUTOR(ES) J. Barker , Christopher Hill , David Bennett , Ophelia Deroy , Julia Trommershaeuser , Loes C. J. Van Dam , Tim Bayne , Berit Brogaard , Kristan Marlow , Kevin Rice , Casey O'Callaghan
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) University of British Columbia Press
ANO 1996
TIPO Book
PERIÓDICO Oceania
ISSN 0029-8077
E-ISSN 1834-4461
DOI 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02552.x
CITAÇÕES 10
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 3D70B98C9C9B6963EDDEDE8304C989A1
MD5 b9d2949c38c818ce77d6b9e4c524fe0b

Resumo

Anthropologists have come to realize that even the most 'traditional' Melanesian practices and ideologies may be historically shaped by the people's experiences within encompassing regional systems. This article examines the reshaping of local understandings of the village among the Maisin people of Oro Province over the past century. I distinguish three contexts within which Maisin notions of the village have been formed: colonial models of village government imposed before the Second World War; Christian village cooperatives in the post‐war colonial period; and village meetings in the 1980s. The paper shows that the idea of the village has a complex evolution, shaped within overlapping dialogues between villagers and significant outsiders and between elder and younger village leaders who have had differing experiences of the outside world and the place of their own community within it.

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