On the remote, steep slopes of the grassland and rain forests of Highland Papua New Guinea, live the Awa, subsisting on root crops and raising domestic pigs. Like many cultures, the Awa must deal with and find solutions to the problems of human social existence: inevitable and rapid culture change, interpersonal squabbles, lying and deceit, adultery, sorcery, and unexpected death. They wait ambivalently for the building of a road that would put them in direct contact with the encroaching world of trade stores, outdoor markets, schools, and the government station. In the middle of this walks an anthropologist who learns that fieldwork is first and foremost about understanding lives, both his and theirs. This is a personal narrative that provides an intimate glimpse of the actual conduct of fieldwork among diverse individuals with remarkably distinct views of their own culture. It is an account of intertwined lives--of living anthropology--and a road of hope and promise, despair and tragedy.
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Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Hogbin, The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea (ISBN 9780881338843); Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Rituals in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661016); and Sillitoe-Sillitoe, Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands (ISBN 9781577666011).
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hamlet fence, haus kiap, coastal worker, medical patrol, bark skirt, vehicular road, sweet potato garden, kunai grass, menstrual hut, clan brothers, old councillor, local government council, trade store, bamboo floor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Big Man, Big Men, South Fore, Tok Pisin, Los Angeles, Okapa District, Eastern Highlands, Okapa Local Government Council, Peter Broadhurst, The Pumpkin's Nose, Lamari River, Rasping Voice, Master Peter, North Fore, Southern Highlands New!
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Big Man, Big Men, South Fore, Tok Pisin, Los Angeles, Okapa District, Eastern Highlands, Okapa Local Government Council, Peter Broadhurst, The Pumpkin's Nose, Lamari River, Rasping Voice, Master Peter, North Fore, Southern Highlands New!
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- Look at the Sky : Death in Cultures Around the World by Shawn Haley in Back Matter
- Landscape, Memory And History: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Pamela J. Stewart on page 187
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