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Author : Richard G. Wilkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000618600

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Poverty and Progress by Richard G. Wilkinson Pdf

Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop – why some are primitive and others advanced. It demonstrates that the pursuit of progress is not the real driving force behind change. Economic development, it argues, is simply the escape route of societies caught in the ecological pincers of population growth and scarce resources. The author explains the processes by which industrialization is forced upon societies by the progressive scarcity of all land-based resources. The things we think of as the fruits of man's search for progress including increasingly sophisticated technology, labour-saving machinery and the rest - are in fact part of the struggle to keep up with the growing productive task created by ecological pressures. ln this light primitive societies appear less poor than we imagine, and advanced ones less rich.

Author : Klaus Neumann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824813332

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Not the Way It Really Was by Klaus Neumann Pdf

"One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies." --Reviews in Anthropology

Author : Marilyn Silverman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773584655

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Ethnography and Development by Marilyn Silverman Pdf

Richard Salisbury (1926-1989) was a pioneer in development anthropology and one of the founders of McGill University's anthropology department. His work had immense influence in the areas of economic anthropology, ethnographic practice (New Guinea, northern Canada) and policy formation. This volume commemorates and explores his life and work. Ethnography and Development presents eighteen articles written by Salisbury between 1954 and 1988, framed by seven original essays that explore his basic ideas as well as the intellectual and personal contexts in which he worked. The articles and essays highlight many of the issues that informed those of his generation who worked in economic and political anthropology, the anthropology of development, public anthropology, advocacy and applied anthropology, and in developing the organisational vehicles on which the profession currently depends. Salisbury's broad socio-economic vision, conceptual ideas, and socio-cultural ethnographic theories continue to exert a powerful influence on the discipline. Contributors include Harvey A. Feit (McMaster University), Henry J. Rutz (Hamilton College), and Colin H. Scott (McGill University).

Author : Peter J. Hempenstall
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921934322

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Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by Peter J. Hempenstall Pdf

This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.

Author : Scott MacWilliam
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144850

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Securing Village Life by Scott MacWilliam Pdf

SECURING VILLAGE LIFE: DEVELOPMENT IN LATE COLONIAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing smallholders against the tendencies of other forms of capitalist development that might have separated households from land. In order to make household occupation of their holdings more secure and at higher standards of living, the colonial administration coordinated and supervised increases in production of crops and other agricultural produce. Contrary to suggestions that colonial policy and practice ignored indigenous agriculture and concentrated on plantation crops grown by international firms and expatriate owner-occupiers, the study shows how the main focus was instead upon increasing smallholder output for immediate consumption as well as for local and international markets. Simultaneously development stimulated increases in consumption, including of goods produced through manufacturing processes and imported into the colony. Only as Independence approached was the pre-eminence of the earlier focus upon smallholders weakened. In part the change occurred due to the political advance of the indigenous capitalist class and their allies seeking to extend their base in largeholding agriculture and related commercial activities. This advance and the uncertainty over which form of development would prevail once indigenes held state power in post-colonial Papua New Guinea stood in marked contrast to the definite direction pursued under the colonial administration of the 1950s and early 1960s.

Author : Daniela Danna
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785277177

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Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science by Daniela Danna Pdf

The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis in a nondogmatic way. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor and mediated by the role of women in society. Procreation and Population is a critical text, opposing the current disciplinary fences that demonstrably hinder our comprehension of social phenomena. Attentive to gender relations, the book boldly tracks “the big picture” of population dynamics and its most reliable theories in times of postmodernist taboos on generalizations and on the search for the historical laws of human society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : New Guinea
ISBN : UCAL:B3967707

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New Guinea Research Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sumer Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Land settlement
ISBN : UCSD:31822025616558

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A Benefit Cost Analysis of Resettlement in the Gazelle Peninsula by Sumer Singh Pdf

Author : Papua New Guinea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063037175

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Laws of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea by Papua New Guinea Pdf

Author : Victor W. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351499026

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Political Anthropology by Victor W. Turner Pdf

Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present and continually influenced by pressures within and outside of a society? Taking the latter view of the nature of political behavior, the editors of Political Anthropology here present an original compilation of papers that thoroughly assess contemporary anthropological research and theory on political phenomena and explore the sources and maintenance of political power. One of the aims of this book is to take tentative steps toward resolving the developing crisis by investigating the structure of political action revealed in empirical data. Within the general framework of political dynamics the book uses processes such as decision making, the judicial process, the disturbance and settlement of policy issues, the application of sanctions, and the outcome of disputes among other things. These items will find their places as components of phases in the major sequence. Investigating societies from Africa to Alaska, politics is shown to be a global phenomenon--a "human process of action" centering on the conflict between the "common good" and "interests of groups," and on the resolution or extension of that conflict by the religious, structural, sociocultural, and psychological pressures within and external to a social grouping. Essential reading for anyone concerned with the nature of political process, Political Anthropology presents a fresh, important and comprehensive overview of the "wind of change" currently abroad in the study of political behavior.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3895 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000398144

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Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy by Various Pdf

Reissuing works originally published between 1952 and 1999, this set provides a wide spread of scholarship on issues surrounding food provision throughout the world. The earlier books look at import and export changes during times when previous trade routes and options changed while later ones mostly consider food assistance policies, poverty and famine, and welfare. These books cover third world studies, economics, anthropology, politics, environment, agriculture and population studies as well as food and nutrition.

Author : D. A. Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521567653

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The Egalitarian Moment by D. A. Low Pdf

An account of the unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.

Author : Neville A. Threlfall
Publisher : Rabaul, Papua New Guinea : Toksave na Buk Dipatmen, The United Church, New Guinea Islands Region
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Bismarck Archipelago
ISBN : UCSD:31822011918463

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One Hundred Years in the Islands by Neville A. Threlfall Pdf

Author : William Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041733473

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Foundations for a Theory of Consumer Behavior by William Thomas Tucker Pdf

Author : Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034853708

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Inside the Cult by Harvey Whitehouse Pdf

For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing "cargo." The author of this book, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated ancestor, and was able to observe the dynamics of the cult from within. From the stable mainstream of the cult, localized splinter groups periodically emerge, hoping to expedite the millennium; the core of this volume concerns the close study of one such group in two Baining villages. The two aspects of the cult studied here--on the one hand a large, uniform, and stable mainstream organization with a well-defined hierarchy demanding orthodoxy of views, and on the other hand a small-scale and temporary movement, emotional and innovatieve in its views--stand in sharp contrast one to the other, but are here seen as divergent manifestations of the same relifious ideology, implemented in differeing ways. This original theory of "modes of religiosity" which Whitehouse develops draws on recent findings in cognitive psychology to link styles of codification and cultural transmission to the political scale, structure, and ethos of religious communities.