Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea write by Inez Baranay. This book was released on 2014-10-25. Rascal Rain: a year in Papua New Guinea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1992 the author left her inner city life in Sydney to take up a volunteer position working with and for women in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She landed in the intersection of very old cultures with the very latest in western religion, mining and development philosophies. The opposition of the men in power, the extreme otherness of the culture and the isolation were the difficulties; the beauty and fascination of the place and new friendships found there were the joys. This new edition includes an Afterword about the writing and reception of the book, which was first published in 1992. More at http: //www.inezbaranay.com/?books=rascal-rain-a-year-in-papua-new-guine
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papua New Guinea write by John Connell. This book was released on 2005-07-28. Papua New Guinea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation write by Gordon Peake. This book was released on 2022-12-13. Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2016, Gordon Peake answers a job advertisement for a role with the government of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a collection of islands on the eastern fringe of Papua New Guinea looking to strike out as a country of its own. In his day job he sees at first hand the challenges of trying to stand up new government systems. Away from the office he travels with former rebels, follows an anthropologist’s ghost and visits landmarks from the region’s conflict. In 2019, he witnesses joy and euphoria as the people of Bougainville vote in a referendum on their future. Out of these encounters emerges an unforgettable portrait of this potential nation-in-waiting. Blending narrative history, travelogue and personal reminiscences, Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation is an engaging memoir as well as an insightful meditation on the realities of nation-making and international development.
Telling Pacific Lives
Telling Pacific Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telling Pacific Lives write by Vicki Luker. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Telling Pacific Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher.
Australian Made
Australian Made - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australian Made write by Sonia Mycak. This book was released on 2018-08-30. Australian Made available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Presenting the work of critics and scholars from both Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives as it explores what it means for a writer or a reader to be 'Australian' and a text to be 'Australian made'.
