Journeys and Transformations: The Process of Innovation in Papua New Guinea
| Autor: | Roderic Lacey |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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education.field_of_study
Folklore media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Population Identity (social science) Gender studies Colonialism Indigenous Geography Political economy General Earth and Planetary Sciences Contradiction education Relocation General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Pacific Viewpoint. 26:81-105 |
| ISSN: | 0030-8978 |
| Popis: | This paper argues that taking into account what oral evidence and other traditional sources reveal about journeys and transformations provides another perspective on movement innovation and change throughout Papua New Guinea. These insights from precolonial situations enable us to see continuities between these journeys and the mechanisms by which innovation occurred during colonial times. Strands of evidence collected from the Enga stress that the interaction between indigenous and foreign world views and institutions was fraught with potential for tension and contradiction. They also demonstrate that although a peoples identity and patterns of movement may be challenged -- even distorted and scarred -- in the turmoil of a new age they persist and provide the means for adaptation and accommodation. Any inquiry into relocation diffusion and mobility and their links with identity must incorporate the realities and manners of thought revealed in traditional evidence. This would include trying to reconstruct early patterns of mobility and change seeking out continuities in behavior and incorporating the values perceptions and insights of the participants themselves. In so doing the experiences and cultural values that Papua New Guineas brought to bear on journeys undertaken towords new and bewildering circumstances can be illuminated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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