Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea

by P Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, et al.

How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349528501
• ISBN13: 9781349528509
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"