ISBN: 9780955640063

Since Papua New Guinea's Independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative centre to a distinctively Melanesian city. However visitors often shun… More...

Since Papua New Guinea's Independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative centre to a distinctively Melanesian city. However visitors often shun the capital, their perceptions coloured by unsympathetic media accounts of violent crime and unchecked corruption. Instead they seek the 'real' Papua New Guinea - traditionally oriented and reassuringly parochial - beyond its boundaries. In this book, experts from the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology and human ecology seek to represent 'Mosbi' as Papua New Guineans experience it. They augment the urban focus of the book with knowledge of the rural societies from which the contemporary inhabitants come. Considering groups of migrants, long-term residents and the traditional landholders of the territory on which it has grown, the contributors offer intimately informed perspectives on the vibrant, dynamic, exciting, hybrid environment that is 'Mosbi'. They argue that it needs to be recognised as the real Papua New Guinea, and that its inhabitants need to be understood not as caricatures of unemployed criminals on the one hand and as corrupt elites on the other, but as modern Melanesians creatively adapting to the exigencies of urban living. | Villagers and the City by Michael Goddard Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Social Science > Urban Studies P10102, Michael Goddard<

ISBN: 9780955640063

Hardback, [PU: Sean Kingston Publishing], Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative center to a distinctively … More...

Hardback, [PU: Sean Kingston Publishing], Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative center to a distinctively Melanesian city. Experts from the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and human ecology seek to represent Mosbi as Papua New Guineans experience it., Urban Communities, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Human Geography<

ISBN: 9780955640063

Hardback, [PU: Sean Kingston Publishing], Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative center to a distinctively … More...

Hardback, [PU: Sean Kingston Publishing], Since Papua, New Guinea's, independence in the 1970s, Port Moresby has been transformed from a colonial administrative center to a distinctively Melanesian city. Experts from the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and human ecology seek to represent Mosbi as Papua New Guineans experience it., Social & Cultural Anthropology<

2010, ISBN: 0955640067

Gebundene Ausgabe SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Sean Kingston Publishing]

2010, ISBN: 0955640067

Gebundene Ausgabe SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Sean Kingston Publishing]