In memory of times to come : ironies of history in southeastern Papua New Guinea /

In memory of times to come : ironies of history in southeastern Papua New Guinea /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Demian, Melissa, author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource ( xi, 228 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Language:	English
Series:	ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; volumes 12 ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 12.
Subject:	Suau (Papua New Guinean people) -- History -- 20th century. Social change -- Papua New Guinea. Acculturation -- Papua New Guinea. Acculturation. Manners and customs. Social change. Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12637748

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Ironies of history in southeastern Papua New Guinea
ISBN:	9781800731172 1800731175 9781800731165
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2021).
Other form:	Print version: Demian, Melissa. In memory of times to come New York : Berghahn Books, 2021 9781800731165

Table of Contents:

On Anthropology and History in the Pacific
Naming, Loss, and Waiting: "Suau" as a Historical Category
Death, Kastom, and the Work of Forgetting
Times Past, or, the Golden Age
Old Roads, New Roads: Temporal Cartography
Times Present, or, "No Government Here"
Times to Come (in the Near Future)
Measuring Time.