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Nihill, Michael. "Roads of presence : social relatedness and exchange in Anganen social structure /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phn691.pdf.
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Jacka, Jerry K. "God, gold, and the ground : place-based political ecology in a New Guinea borderlands /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095254.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-396). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Keck, Verena. "Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea /." Durham, N.C : Carolina Academic Press, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026872.html.
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Zugl.: Diss. Universität Basel, 1991.Based on the author's thesis, Universitaet Basel, 1991. Originaltitel: Falsch gehandelt - schwer erkrankt. Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325) and index.
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Gilberthorpe, Emma Louise. "The Fasu, Papua New Guinea : analysing modes of adaptation through cosmological systems in a context of petroleum extraction /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17527.pdf.
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Kopi, Sibona N. (Sibona Nega). "Traditional beliefs, illness and health among the Motuan people of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9266.2.
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Schmid, Christin Kocher. "Of people and plants a botanical ethnography of Nokopo Village, Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea /." Basel : Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität und Museum für Völkerkunde : In Kommission bei Wepf, 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/25075874.html.
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Barker, John. "Maisin Christianity : an ethnography of the contemporary religion of a seaboard Melanesian people." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25550.
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This dissertation examines the ways in which a Papua New Guinean people, the Maisin of Collingwood Bay in Oro Province, have over the years responded to and appropriated a version of Christianity brought to them by Anglican missionaries. The Maisin treat Christianity not as a foreign imposition, but as an integral part of their total religious conceptions, activities and experiences.
Almost a century of documented Maisin history reveals a consistency related to what is here called a "social ideology": a complex formed by idioms of asymmetry between senior and junior kin and allies, equivalence in exchanges between a range of social categories of persons, and complementarity between the sexes. Extensions of the social ideology to the developments of the post-contact society are explored in the contexts of a growing dependence on money and commodities, unequal access to education and jobs, large-scale out-migration, the material requirements of the local church, and church regulations concerning social behaviour.
The social ideology is also extended to sorcerers, ancestral ghosts, bush spirits, and Christian divinities. The analysis shows that Maisin experience indigenous and Christian elements as realities that exist within a single religious field.
Working from the premise that religion is an aspect of the people's total experience and not a separate cultural institution or sub-system, the thesis explores the modes by which the Maisin create and discover coherence between the various elements within the religious field. The most important points and occasions of religious coherence are those in which the moral precepts of the social ideology are joined with conceptions of spiritual entities towards the explanation and resolution of problems. Three "religious precipitates", as these moments of coherence are termed, are analysed: the village church, healing practices, and death rites.
A major finding of this study is that Maisin articulate their assumptions about local sorcerers, ghosts, and spirits within idioms of conflict between kin and affinal groupings, but speak of God, Christ and the church as symbols of community solidarity. The village church is analysed as a point of convergence of the social ideology, economic aspirations, memories of past interactions with missionaries, and Christian teachings and forms. The primary religious importance of the church is as a condensed symbol of communitas that transcends the inherited divisions of the social order and the contradictions of present political and economic conditions.Arts, Faculty of
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Cazaudehore, Sebastien. "The social human : between essence and existence /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18472.pdf.
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Bieniek, Jan. "Enga and evangelisation : the changing pattern of the laity's involvement in the Christian evangelisation of Enga." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7718.
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McLaughlin, Juliana M. "The outcomes of the Australian/Papua New Guinean secondary school students' project: An analysis from a postcolonial perspective." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36673/1/36673_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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Foreign aid evolved as a moral responsibility of developed nations to developing countries. Foreign study through educational scholarships has become a major consumer of education assistance. This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of foreign assistance to PNG education. Specifically, this study focused on the exploration of the outcomes of the Secondary School Students' Project (SSSP) from the perspectives of the recipients. The SSSP was funded under the Australian aid program.
A postcolonial theoretical framework was developed and guided this research. Employing a qualitative design, this study sought to explore the perception of the recipients and issues concerning their experiences in Australian private boarding schools and on return to PNG. A case study approach was adopted. In-depth interviews, focus groups, a qualitative survey and document analysis were used as data collection methods. This study involved a total of 164 participants consisting of SSSP graduates, National Department of Education (NOOE) coordinators, personnel from tertiary institutions, employers, parents and guardians. The analysis of SSSP recipients' experiences was based on a postcolonial theoretical framework and related literature on colonial history and legacies including neo-colonialism and internal colonialism. A postcolonial rethinking of modernist discourses included a critique of dependency theory, education for development, modernisation and human capital assumptions.
The case study revealed that foreign secondary education maintains personal benefits for recipients. However, the educational provision conditions the recipients to aspire to a colonial identity. It was found that the intended contribution of foreign education for national development of the recipient country is highly dependent upon the political, economic, social and cultural issues within the postcolonial state.
The major themes emerging from this study revealed that cultural politics in postcolonial states can influence the outcomes of foreign funded educational projects. Cultural politics are profoundly influenced by a colonial historical value of western education and cultural hybridity (of traditional, Melanesian ethnicity and western culture). Consequently, the ambivalence (simultaneously attraction and repulsion) that exists in dynamic ways in contemporary society characterises bureaucratic, cultural and social practices. Papua New Guinea needs to define its own identity and its destiny.
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Merrett, Leanne. "New women : discursive and non-discursive processes in the construction of Anganen womanhood /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm5678.pdf.
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Ballard, Chris. "The death of a great land ritual, history and subsistence revolution in the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea /." Online version, 1995. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23726.
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Wilde, Charles. "Men at work : masculinity, mutability, and and mimesis among the Gogodala of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27870.
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This thesis explores images and expressions of masculinity among the Gogodala
of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. I propose that, in contrast to
anthropological studies that emphasise how men in PNG were rendered powerless
and suffered bodily detumescence in response to colonial authority, Gogodala
men experienced colonialism as part of a complex process of mimesis, of mutual
appropriation and empowerment for both Europeans and the Gogodala. Gogodala
masculinity is based on the display of internal strength through external
appearance and action, or performance, and it is particularly through work that
inner capacities are demonstrated, social relations maintained, and gender made
known. Through an analysis of contemporary understandings of early colonial
contact and the evangelical mission project, I explore the way colonial
endorsement of the local work ethic has been interpreted not only as confirmation
of Gogodala ela gi, or lifestyle, but as an attempt by Europeans to appropriate
Gogodala bodily efficacy. The early colonial practice of collecting vast quantities
of Gogodala artefacts, for example, not only acknowledged the skill of the
carvers, but also reinforced male autonomy and many ritual practices. Canoes,
canoe imagery and canoe designs form the basis of Gogodala social life by
expressing an embodied relationship with the ancestral past, and contemporary
canoe races provide a link to this past. Through a study of canoe races, and the
relationship between canoes and the introduced sport of rugby league, I
demonstrate how Gogodala men emphasize continuity with the past, despite
colonial transformation. In addition, I argue that, just as work continues to define
male strength and produce an ‘ideal’ body type, this work ethic also exhibits
community strength and a Christian cohesion that, it is hoped, will ultimately
produce an ‘ideal’ type of development.
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Vaughan, Catherine Maree. "A picture of health : participation, photovoice and preventing HIV among Papua New Guinean youth." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/160/.
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Participation has been linked with better health outcomes for young people in a range of settings, with an extensive literature extolling the benefits of a participatory approach to youth-focused HIV-prevention programs in particular. However the processes of participation, and how the ideals outlined in the participation literature can be achieved in the difficult circumstances in which many youth health promotion programs operate, are less often discussed. This thesis responds to calls for more nuanced documentation of situated participatory practices by developing a detailed and contextualised analysis of youth participation in a Photovoice project in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The analysis draws upon data generated over a ten-month period (photo-stories, individual interviews, written accounts of participation, group discussions, artefacts produced during participatory analysis, and field-notes) to describe how participation in a project of self-reflection and self-representation can support dialogical engagement and the demonstration of critical thinking. The thesis explores the relationship between these psycho-social changes and young people’s subsequent ability to enact strategies to improve their health and well-being. Findings challenge idealised representations of youth participation, demonstrating that young people’s ability to act is mediated and bounded by the health-related contexts in which they live. They also demonstrate a disconnect between youth health priorities and the priorities of the programs ‘targeting’ them; and point to the importance of HIV-prevention programs working to support ‘in-between’ spaces where youth and community leaders can connect in order to affect wider social environments. In providing a detailed examination of a Photovoice process, this thesis extends the theoretical basis of an increasingly popular participatory research tool. In analysing the relationship between young people’s participation in a research project and their ability to take action on health, this thesis also contributes to social psychological understandings of the pathways through which participation may impact upon health, and in particular affect efforts to prevent HIV.
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Street, Alice Naomi. "Diagnosing difference : medical agency and the politics of recognition in a Papua New Guinean hospital." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612449.
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Mungkaje, Martha Yahimbu. "Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects of kinos from Australian and Papua New Guinean Eucalyptus species." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1868.
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Kinos (astringent exudates) from Eucalyptus species are used by Indigenous Australians to treat inflammatory conditions and bacterial infections. ELISAs and Griess assay were used to investigate anti-inflammatory effect of kinos and flow cytometer for the phagocytic effect in murine RAW264.7 macrophages. Antibacterial effects of kinos were determined by agar diffusion and microdilution methods. The data demonstrate anti-inflammatory, phagocytic and antibacterial effect of kinos on mouse macrophages, thus substantiating some of the claims by traditional medicine.
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Clark, Jeffrey L. "From cults to Christianity : continuity and change in Takuru /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc593.pdf.
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Young, Douglas W. "Resolving conflict for gutpela sindaun an analysis and evaluation of traditional and modern methods of achieving peaceful intergroup relations among the Enga of Papua New Guinea /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/23155.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, School of History, Philosophy, and Politics, Centre for Conflict Resolution, 1995.Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
This thesis presents the findings of a participatory action research project conducted in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. -- The advantages and disadvantages of participatory action research in Conflict Resolution are discussed, with special reference to their common basis in a contemporary philosophy of cognition and learning. The practical and ethical issues of cross-cultural training in Conflict Resolution are reviewed. The research process is described and particular research methods evaluated. Comparison with the methods and findings of earlier research is also presented. The issues are illustrated by means of case studies drawn from a period of field work (March 1992-April 1993, December 1993-February 1994, and August 1994). -- The research involved the analysis and evaluation of both traditional and modern means of conflict resolution used by Enga people or by other agencies within Enga Province during the period of research. The outcome of resolved conflict is gutpela sindaun ("good sitting") a Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin) phrase that translates the Enga phrases auu pyoo katenge and auu pyoo petenge ("being or staying well," conceived from a masculine "standing" [katenge] or feminine "sitting" [petenge] perspective). These phrases are frequently used to describe peaceful intergroup relations. In considering how this state might be brought about, special attention is paid to the preferred methods of the people themselves (cross-cutting alliances, exchange relationships, and violent self-help), government (the Village Court System, economic development, and punitive measures), and churches and religious movements (conversion, forgiveness, and reconciliation). -- The special role of new religious movements as social movements for peace is highlighted. A comprehensive policy proposal is presented for further discussion by interested parties. -- This information, its interpretation, application, and implementation are presently part of an ongoing participatory action research process sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Wabag (Enga Province). This thesis therefore forms a summary of the data as of December 1994, which must in turn be evaluated by those whose practice it is intended to inform.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Kulick, Don. "Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, christianity, and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village /." Stockholm : Department of social anthropology, Stockholm university, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357208613.
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Awi, Jane Pumai. "Creating new folk opera forms of applied theatre for HIV and AIDS education in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81643/1/Jane%20Awi%20Thesis.pdf.
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This research investigated the potential of folk opera as a tool for HIV and AIDS education in Papua New Guinea. It began with an investigation on the indigenous performativities and theatricalities of Papua New Guineans, conducting an audit of eight selected performance traditions in Papua New Guinea. These traditions were analysed, and five cultural forms and twenty performance elements were drawn out for further exploration. These elements were fused and combined with theatre techniques from western theatre traditions, through a script development process involving Australians, Papua New Guineans and international collaborators. The resulting folk opera, entitled Kumul, demonstrates what Murphy (2010) has termed story force, picture force, and feeling force, in the service of a story designed to educate Papua New Guinean audiences about HIV and the need to adopt safer sexual practices. Kumul is the story of a young man faced with decisions on whether or not to engage in risky sexual behaviours. Kumul's narrative is carefully framed within selected Papua New Guinean beliefs drawn from the audit to deliver HIV and AIDS messages using symbolic and metaphoric communication techniques without offending people. The folk opera Kumul was trialled in two communities in Papua New Guinea: a village community and an urban settlement area. Kumul is recognisable to Papua New Guinean audiences because it reflects their lifestyle and a worldview, which connects them to their beliefs and spirituality, and the larger cosmological order. Feedback from audience members indicated that the performance facilitated HIV and AIDS communication, increased people's awareness of HIV and AIDS, and encouraged behaviour change. Tellingly, in one performance venue, forty people queued for Voluntary Testing and Counseling immediately after the performance. Twenty of these people were tested on that night and the other twenty were tested the following day. Many of the volunteers were young men – a demographic historically difficult to engage in HIV testing. This encouraging result indicates that the Kumul folk opera form of applied theatre could be useful for facilitating communication and education regarding sexual health and safer sexual behaviours in Papua New Guinea. Feedback from participants, audience members and other research stakeholders suggests that the form might also be adapted to address other social and development issues, particularly in the areas of health and social justice.
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Kirksey, S. Eben. "Saya makan sembarang (I eat anything) the changing world of the Oge Bage Mee /." [Sarasota, Fla.] : Division of Social Sciences, Division of Natural Sciences, New College of the University of South Florida, 2002. http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/s123/kirksey1/%5Frk.html.
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Gould, Syd. "Vernacular Bible reading in a traditionally oral society : a case study of the use of the translated vernacular scriptures in the Huli region of the Evangelical Church of Papua New Guinea, with particular reference to the influence of the Asia Pacific Christian Mission /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19378.pdf.
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Mason, Russell A. "Structural evolution of the Western Papuan Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37523.
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New Guinea forms the northern margin of the Australian Plate which is now characterised by a zone crustal deformation and accreted terranes. The present day configuration is the result of global tectonics in the southwestern Pacific since the Triassic. The Papuan Fold Belt is located within Papua New Guinea, the eastern half of New Guinea, and comprises deformed basement, platformal and basinal Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments. Deformation within the fold belt commenced possibly as early as Middle to Late Miocene and is currently continuing. The structure of the western part of the Papuan Fold Belt is characterised by thin skinned thrusting and basement involved structures, the latter attributed to inversion of extensional faults active in the Tertiary and the Mesozoic. Inversion is thought to have post-dated the initiation of thin skinned thrusting by approximately 5 Ma. Continued basement shortening may be due to the current high convergence rate between the Australian and Pacific Plates. The Alice Anticline formed due to inversion of a Tertiary extensional fault system. Three-dimensional restoration of the Alice Anticline makes use of a series of balanced cross-sections and is based on a line length method. Paradoxically, this restoration reveals non-plane strain in the balanced cross-sections upon which it relies. However, the restoration also reveals and quantifies a component of rotation about vertical axes which would not be obvious by application of conventional methods of structural analysis. Two transfer zones associated with the original extensional geometry acted as obstructions to deformation and have effectively pinned contractional structures during their formation causing the rotations about vertical axes. A general fracture system is developed in rocks in the Alice Anticline area. This typically comprises two sets of conjugate shear fractures and a third set, interpreted as extensional, which is sub-nonnal to the acute bisector of the two conjugate sets. Unfolding of bedding using the three-dimensional restoration results in a symmetrical geometric relationship between the general fracture system and folds. The mechanical interpretation of fractures, their geometric relationships and the timing constraints on their formation are consistent with folding. The structure of the Ok Tedi mine area is complicated by the presence of approximately syn-tectonic intrusive bodies. The development of the Parrots Beak and Taranaki Thrusts as floor and roof thrusts respectively constitutes shortening estimates in the mine area which are consistent with those determined regionally. Striation analysis of rnesoscale faults from country rocks in the mine area reveals a reduced stress tensor compatible with the regional shortening direction. Reduced stress tensors determined for the Fubilan Monzonite Porphyry are related to emplacement processes and would be consistent with development of radial and concentric fracture sets.
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de, Sousa Hilário. "The Menggwa Dla language of New Guinea." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1341.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)Menggwa Dla is a Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Kabupaten Jayapura of Papua Province, Indonesia. Menggwa Dla is a dialect of the Dla language; together with its sister language Anggor (e.g. Litteral 1980), the two languages form the Senagi language family, one of the small Papuan language families found in North-Central New Guinea. The main text of this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic, cultural and political landscapes of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border area where the Dla territory is located. Chapter 2 introduces the phonology of Menggwa Dla; described in this chapter are the phonemes, allophonic variations, phonotactics, morpho-phonological processes, stress assignment and intonation of the language. The inventory of phonemes in Menggwa is average for a Papuan language (15 consonants and 5 vowels). The vast majority of syllables come in the shape of V, CV or C1C2V where C2 can be /n/ /r/ /l/ /j/ or /w/. In C1C2V syllables, the sonority rises from C1 to V (§2.2.2). Nevertheless, there are a few words with word-medial consonant sequences like ft /ɸt/, lk /lk/, lf /lɸ/ or lk /lk/ where the sonority drops from the first to the second consonant; the first consonant in these sequences is analysed as the coda of the previous syllable (§2.2.3). Chapter 3 is an overview of the word classes in Menggwa Dla; the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the three major word classes (nouns, adjectives and verbs) and the minor word classes are compared in this chapter. Chapter 4 describes the properties of nouns and noun phrases; the person-number-gender categories, noun-phrasal syntax, nominal clitics and personal pronouns are outlined in this chapter. Menggwa Dla has a rich array of case, topic and focus markers which comes in the form of clitics (§4.5). Subject pronouns (‘citation pronouns’) only mark person (i.e. one for each of the three persons), whereas object and genitive pronouns mark person (including inclusive/exclusive first person), number, and sometimes also gender features (§4.6). Chapter 5 introduces various morphological and syntactic issues which are common to both independent and dependent clauses: verb stems, verb classes, cross-referencing, intraclausal syntax, syntactic transitivity and semantic valence. Cross-referencing in Menggwa Dla is complex: there are seven paradigms of subject cross-reference suffixes and four paradigms of object cross-references. Based on their cross-referencing patterns, verbs are classified into one of five verb classes (§5.2). There is often a mismatch between the number of cross-reference suffixes, the semantic valence, and the syntactic transitivity within a clause. There are verbs where the subject cross-reference suffix, or the object suffix, or both the subject and object suffixes are semantically empty (‘dummy cross-reference suffixes’; §5.3.2). Chapter 6 outlines the morphology of independent verbs and copulas. Verbal morphology differs greatly between the three statuses of realis, semi-realis and irrealis; a section is devoted to the morphology for each of the three statuses. Chapter 7 introduces the dependent clauses and verbal noun phrases. Different types of dependent verbs are deverbalised to various degrees: subordinate verbs are the least deverbalised, chain verbs are more deverbalised (but they mark switch-reference (SR), and sometimes also interclausal temporal relations), and non-finite chain verbs even more deverbalised. Further deverbalised than the non-finite chain verbs are the verbal nouns; verbal noun phrases in Menggwa Dla functions somewhat like complement clauses in English. In younger speakers speech, the function of the chain clause SR system has diverted from the canonical SR system used by older speakers (§7.2.2). For younger speakers, coreferential chain verb forms and disjoint-reference chain verb forms only have their coreferential and disjoint-referential meaning — respectively — when the person-number-gender features of the two subject cross-reference suffixes cannot resolve the referentiality of the two subjects. Otherwise, the coreferential chain verb forms have become the unmarked SR-neutral chain verb forms. At the end of this thesis are appendix 1, which contains four Menggwa Dla example texts, and appendix 2, which contains tables of cross-reference suffixes, pronouns, copulas and irregular verbs.
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de, Sousa Hilário. "The Menggwa Dla language of New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1341.
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Menggwa Dla is a Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Kabupaten Jayapura of Papua Province, Indonesia. Menggwa Dla is a dialect of the Dla language; together with its sister language Anggor (e.g. Litteral 1980), the two languages form the Senagi language family, one of the small Papuan language families found in North-Central New Guinea. The main text of this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic, cultural and political landscapes of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border area where the Dla territory is located. Chapter 2 introduces the phonology of Menggwa Dla; described in this chapter are the phonemes, allophonic variations, phonotactics, morpho-phonological processes, stress assignment and intonation of the language. The inventory of phonemes in Menggwa is average for a Papuan language (15 consonants and 5 vowels). The vast majority of syllables come in the shape of V, CV or C1C2V where C2 can be /n/ /r/ /l/ /j/ or /w/. In C1C2V syllables, the sonority rises from C1 to V (§2.2.2). Nevertheless, there are a few words with word-medial consonant sequences like ft /ɸt/, lk /lk/, lf /lɸ/ or lk /lk/ where the sonority drops from the first to the second consonant; the first consonant in these sequences is analysed as the coda of the previous syllable (§2.2.3). Chapter 3 is an overview of the word classes in Menggwa Dla; the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the three major word classes (nouns, adjectives and verbs) and the minor word classes are compared in this chapter. Chapter 4 describes the properties of nouns and noun phrases; the person-number-gender categories, noun-phrasal syntax, nominal clitics and personal pronouns are outlined in this chapter. Menggwa Dla has a rich array of case, topic and focus markers which comes in the form of clitics (§4.5). Subject pronouns (‘citation pronouns’) only mark person (i.e. one for each of the three persons), whereas object and genitive pronouns mark person (including inclusive/exclusive first person), number, and sometimes also gender features (§4.6). Chapter 5 introduces various morphological and syntactic issues which are common to both independent and dependent clauses: verb stems, verb classes, cross-referencing, intraclausal syntax, syntactic transitivity and semantic valence. Cross-referencing in Menggwa Dla is complex: there are seven paradigms of subject cross-reference suffixes and four paradigms of object cross-references. Based on their cross-referencing patterns, verbs are classified into one of five verb classes (§5.2). There is often a mismatch between the number of cross-reference suffixes, the semantic valence, and the syntactic transitivity within a clause. There are verbs where the subject cross-reference suffix, or the object suffix, or both the subject and object suffixes are semantically empty (‘dummy cross-reference suffixes’; §5.3.2). Chapter 6 outlines the morphology of independent verbs and copulas. Verbal morphology differs greatly between the three statuses of realis, semi-realis and irrealis; a section is devoted to the morphology for each of the three statuses. Chapter 7 introduces the dependent clauses and verbal noun phrases. Different types of dependent verbs are deverbalised to various degrees: subordinate verbs are the least deverbalised, chain verbs are more deverbalised (but they mark switch-reference (SR), and sometimes also interclausal temporal relations), and non-finite chain verbs even more deverbalised. Further deverbalised than the non-finite chain verbs are the verbal nouns; verbal noun phrases in Menggwa Dla functions somewhat like complement clauses in English. In younger speakers speech, the function of the chain clause SR system has diverted from the canonical SR system used by older speakers (§7.2.2). For younger speakers, coreferential chain verb forms and disjoint-reference chain verb forms only have their coreferential and disjoint-referential meaning — respectively — when the person-number-gender features of the two subject cross-reference suffixes cannot resolve the referentiality of the two subjects. Otherwise, the coreferential chain verb forms have become the unmarked SR-neutral chain verb forms. At the end of this thesis are appendix 1, which contains four Menggwa Dla example texts, and appendix 2, which contains tables of cross-reference suffixes, pronouns, copulas and irregular verbs.
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Herbert, Oliver [Verfasser], Gerd [Akademischer Betreuer] Glaeske, Gerd [Gutachter] Glaeske, and Stephen [Gutachter] Leeder. "Immunological peculiarities in a "traditional" worm infested Papua New Guinean society and possible implications for the increase of allergies in fast changing "modern" societies / Oliver Herbert ; Gutachter: Gerd Glaeske, Stephen Leeder ; Betreuer: Gerd Glaeske." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1173896546/34.
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Ingram, Andrew. "Anamuxra : a language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9823.
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Ma, KeYang. "Hydrocarbon source and depositional environments in the central Papual Basin, Papua New Guinea /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18901.pdf.
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Tida, Syuntaro. "A grammar of the Dom language : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/143786.
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Reesink, Ger P. "Structures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea /." Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34939623k.
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Carter, Jessica. "An examination of Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, Department of Media and Communications, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7200.
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This thesis examines Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea, a country with which Australia shares geographic proximity and strong historical ties. Specifically, this study examines the coverage of PNG by The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers from January 01 until June 30, 2010. This work aims to demonstrate that PNG is a neglected news region. This neglect – in terms of quality reporting – has produced a limited and fragmentary portrayal of PNG in the Australian media. In this context, this study observes that the majority of news stories about PNG tend to lack analysis and contextual background. By examining the process of news framing and news values, this thesis suggests that the disproportionate emphasis on events associated with crime, chaos, disaster, and corruption has constructed PNG as a fragile, suffering and dependent society. The key methodologies used in this thesis are content analysis, and indepth interviews with a selected number of Australian journalists currently or previously based in PNG. The thesis forms part of a much broader examination of the changing trends in international news coverage of developing countries, particularly the Asia-Pacific.
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Nordhagen, Stella. "Cultivating change : crop choices and climate in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709283.
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Stewart, Lynn Leslie. "Our people are like gardens" : music, performance and aesthetics among the Lolo, West New Britain Province, Papua, New Guinea." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30917.
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Relationships among the Aesthetic, culture, and music are problematic- Frequently considered as epiphenomenal to culture, music and the arts are typically seen as adjuncts to ceremonial activity- This dissertation examines the nature of the Aesthetic, music and performance in the context of the Lolo, Araigilpua Village, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to develop a definition of the Aesthetic applicable for cross-cultural research and to discover the ways in which the Aesthetic and culture articulate.
For the purposes of this dissertation, the Aesthetic is defined as that facet of religion focused on responses to extraordinary powers thought to maintain what are considered to be proper relationships between human members of a community and extraordinary powers. Three forms of aesthetics, social, performance, and musical, are taken as the means and methods of directing interactions between man and extraordinary powers.
At present, the Lolo are engaged in a process of secularisation resulting primarily from the introduction of Christianity, Western medicine and money. This dissertation examines the relationship between the Aesthetic and social life, and addresses the impact of changes to the Aesthetic.Arts, Faculty of
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Borrey, Anou. "Understanding sexual violence : the case of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8078.
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Oppermann, Thiago Cintra. "Tsuhana : processes of disorder and order in Halia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8943.
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Koloa, Mura, and n/a. "National development planning in Papua New Guinea." University of Canberra. Management, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060815.124347.
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Lomas, G. C. J. (Gabriel Charles Jacques). "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, School of English and Linguistics, 1989.Bibliography: leaves 385-393.
Introduction -- Traditional Huli society -- Segmental phonology -- Prosodies -- Verbs -- Adverbials -- NominaIs -- Word complexes -- Group complexes -- Semantic patterns -- Linguistic and social change -- Texts.
This thesis describes the language of the Huli speech community of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The first chapter situates the speech community in its historical setting, and refers to previous, mainly non-linguistic, studies. The second chapter situates the commuity in its geographical and 'traditional' setting, recording putative migrations and dialectal variations. The third chapter describes segmental phonology at a level of detail not previously given in accounts of the language, while the fourth chapter presents a tentative exploration of prosodic features. The fifth chapter describes verbs, the sixth adverbials, and the seventh nominals: in each instance there is an emphasis on morphology and morphophonemic processes hitherto unrecorded for Huli. The eighth chapter describes word complexes, and the ninth group complexes, using a systemic-functional approach that establishes a descriptive framework that indicates useful insights into the pragmatics of the language. Chapter ten selects and explores, in varying degrees, semantic features that are typologically interesting, while chapter eleven re-focusses the thesis on sociolinguistic issues. The twelveth chapter presents a dozen texts, which it interprets and comments on in the light of linguistic and sociological descriptions presented previously. The appendices that follow give the data bases for some of the descriptions given in the thesis body. The body of the thesis is concerned with describing the language as it is being created and used by living, real, people. Hence, the language forms at each level are described and interpreted in relation to their functions in creating meaning. This has necessitated presenting in some detail phonological and morphological data that need to be described if the language is to be seen as the growing, changing expression of the living society that uses and creates it.
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Barnish, G. "Studies on Strongloides in Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383456.
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Lomas, G. C. J. "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.
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Dandava, McClintock Jesse 1957. "Computer assisted mathematics learning in distance education in Papua New Guinea." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8464.
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Flower, Scott Jason. "The growth of Islam in Papua New Guinea : implications for security and policy." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109597.
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Since 2001 the Muslim population of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has increased by over 500 percent as a result of religious conversions by indigenous Papua New Guineans. The spike in Islamic conversions in this largely Christian nation has coincided with a period of increased Islamic missionary activity, and a rise in media coverage on Muslims following the attacks by Islamic extremists on September 11, 2001. This thesis analyses the growth of Islam in PNG and seeks to determine whether the growing Muslim population is likely to have an impact on the security environment. This research also contributes to a very small body of literature which seeks to understand potential security risks posed by Muslim converts (as opposed to born Muslims). Since 1950 Islamic minorities have been engaged in more internal conflicts than any other type of religious or non-religious minority. The conversion of non-Muslims to Islam is a key strategy employed by Islamic extremists to recruit new members who can be engaged in radicalism across the globe. In the last decade the number of converts involved with radical and militant Islamic networks has noticeably increased. In addition, PNG borders Indonesia, a country that houses the world's largest population of Muslims and is home to a number of activist, radical and extremist Islamic groups. Based on five months of fieldwork during which I lived among Muslim communities in urban and rural regions of PNG, I examined the empirical foundations of Islam's growth to write what is the first comprehensive history of the establishment and institutionalisation of Islam in PNG. Taking an interdisciplinary approach and using interview data and fieldwork observations, I applied knowledge from the religious conversion and security studies literatures to analyse the causes and processes of Islamic conversion in PNG. This approach enabled new insights into which factors of conversion may subsequently influence the radicalisation of converts and affect security in PNG the Pacific region, and globally.
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Usman, Asnani. "Border tensions in the Indonesia/Papua New Guinea relationship." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111183.
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The relationship between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has been significantly
affected by problems associated with the border between them. This has not been a
dispute about the boundary itself. There is a line on the map which the two countries
have agreed to accept Rather, the border problem which has arisen between the two
countries concerns an independence movement called the ‘Organisasi Papua Merdeka’
(Free Papua Movement - OPM) which since 1963 has been active against Indonesia and
has repeatedly crossed the border to seek refuge in neighbouring Papua New Guinea;
incursions in Papua New Guinea by the Indonesian military in pursuit of the OPM; and
thousands of Irian Jayan refugees who have crossed the border to seek sanctuary in
Papua New Guinea. Since Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975 the border problem has intensified,
especially in 1984 when an uprising in Jayapura resulted in an influx of 12,(XX) refugees
into Papua New Guinea territory. This heightened security concerns in the two
countries. For Jakarta, the refugees could become bases for the OPM to threaten
Indonesia’s security; for Papua New Guinea on the other hand, there were concerns
about possible Indonesian border incursions in an attempt to destroy the OPM.
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Kenema, Simon. "Bougainville revisited : understanding the crisis and U-Vistract through an ethnography of everyday life in Nagovisi." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10289.
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This thesis offers an ethnographic study of everyday life in Nagovisi of Southwest Bougainville. The study focuses on aspects of how the Nagovisi construe social relations with a specific focus on vernacular categories and ideologies. The thesis deals with ideas about land, perceptions about the fluid nature of Nagovisi sociality, movement, and U-Vistract. The study is primarily based on thirteen months of field research I conducted in the Nagovisi between September 2011 and November of 2012. Through the exploration of the various thematic issues in the individual chapters the thesis offers a comparative scope for a tangential re-evaluation of the mine related crisis on the island. The focus on Noah Musinku and the Kingdom of Papala further illustrates this comparative scope by drawing an analogy between Panguna and U-Vistract and the complex entanglements and interrelationships between ideas relating to land, history, myth, relatedness, social unpredictability, and notions about wealth. It deals with the question of how persons, land and knowledge are mutually constitutive, and how each can affect the other as a result of history, and movement in time and space. By focusing on Nagovisi notions of the unpredictability of talk, knowledge, and the implication this bears on the nature of how people relate to each other and different places the thesis deals with what has long been proven a recalcitrant problem in PNG anthropological literature in which local life worlds are characterised by a fluidity of social forms.
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Bashkow, Ira R. ""Whitemen" in the moral world of Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9951760.
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Haars, Buff. "Semen, brideprice, and symbolic equivalency in Papua New Guinea." 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21311132.html.
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Gillespie, Kirsty. "Steep Slopes : song creativity, continuity and change for the Duna of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147121.
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Tyson, Daniel Clarence. "An ecological analysis of child malnutrition in an Abelam community, Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/141460.
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Knapp, Regina Anne-Marie. "Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea /Regina Anne-Marie Knapp." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150644.
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This thesis draws upon existing bodies of work on 'culture change', 'exchange' and 'person' in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way. In the anthropological debate, culture change has often been discussed in relation to understandings of 'development' involving the reproduction and transformation of cultural categories according to an indigenous understanding of exchange and agency. My research suggests that culture change as it is taking place in Bena, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, can best be understood when the model of agentive culture change, first proposed by Sahlins, is conjoined with the theoretical approach of the 'new Melanesian ethnography', especially with Marilyn Strathern's work on agency and personhood. Here, agency is understood in terms of dividuality, partible personhood, composite persons and the decomposition or deconception of persons in exchange. In Bena, the partibility of person is reflected in the perception that every exchange involves personal de- and attachments of an 'essence' called 'nogoya'a' (nurturance). Phillip Newman who worked among a neighbouring group, the Gururumba, found a strikingly similar concept. Unfortunately, his findings have so far been neglected in anthropological literature on Melanesia. This thesis attempts to fill this gap. It reveals how Newman's ethnographic data on 'vital essence' in Gururumba help to clarify the Bena idea of personal partibility expressed in the concept of exchanging personal parts of 'nogoya'a'. In doing so, it provides an insight into the way in which the particular notion of interpersonal exchange in Bena ties in with agentive forms of culture change and explains how the process of merging (or rejecting) elements from other cultures is shaped by the specific Bena understanding of exchange and person. This thesis suggests that culture change in Bena can best be understood as culture ex-change, with exchange being grasped in Bena terms as an ideally reciprocal, nurturing and strengthening flow of vital essence between partible exchange partners.
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Standish, William. "Simbu paths to power : political change and cultural continuity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/114089.
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This study examines the interaction between the politics of a Papua New Guinea
Highlands society, the Simbu, and the colonially introduced state. It does so by
analysing patterns of political competition in a study of dynamic change in four major
stages, the precolonial, the colonial, decolonizing and post-colonial periods. In order to
analyse this interaction, it seeks to answer the basic questions about politics - how people
gain power and become politicians, how they maintain power once they have it, and
whether the answers to these questions have differed in these time periods.
In particular, it examines the extent to which indigenous social structures,
ideologies and political techniques are used in the new state structures, and thus the
degree to which the introduced institutions have been adapted by the Simbu. The
interaction between indigenous, precolonial institutions and the state and its conventions
are revealed by a study of the ideologies used in the Simbu political world.
In the different political arenas which existed in the different time periods quite
distinct talents have been displayed and appeals made. The Simbu ideologies of the
solidarity of clans which have strong, hereditary leaders are used selectively according to
the context. The aggressive battlefield leader of precolonial times was not appropriate in
the enforced peace of the colonial era, but was revived in the insecure period of
decolonization. Ideologies of the manipulation of wealth being the basis for prestige,
power and influence were expanded upon in the colonial context, and have been further
adapted in the post-colonial context to justify the use of massive financial and other
resources in attempting to build personalised followings on a large scale. The ideology of
the leader as a man of knowledge is also claimed by some. All these claims have at
different times had some appeal and contributed to the search for bases of power, but no
single model of Simbu leadership and society is applicable. The elements of this variety
of political models can be found in the adaptivity of Simbu tradition.
Simbu ideologies of solidarity are regularly expressed in bloc voting patterns by
clans, tribes and sometimes whole language groups, and in the clan warfare which
resumed in the late colonial period. The techniques and strategies of precolonial
leadership, of the leader using resources from one sphere in another and gaining prestige
from this interstitial role, are reinvented in many contexts in the contemporary state of
PNG. These processes are demonstrated in numerous case studies of the transitional
politics from precolonial Simbu to the contemporary period, with particular focus on the
decade straddling the Independence of Papua New Guinea, and the creation of an elected
provincial government. Political competition and voter responses are analysed in the
context of three national and one provincial election, and the struggles for control of the
area's coffee industry.
Despite the different scale of the political arenas explored in different time periods,
and the rapid increases in the political resources available, the political techniques and
stategies of Simbu remained essentially the same* There are also continuities in political
beliefs and the range of concepts found within Simbu's variegated political models.
Despite the political changes, there has been continuity in Simbu's political culture.
Simbu values have been used within the introduced state, just as resources from the
state have been used within indigenous structures competition and conflicts. The process
is thus one of interpenetration, with the state co-opted into Simbu political competition.
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Mulung, Kulala. "Livelihood and land-use choices of Papua New Guinean landowners, and implications for decisions relevant to commercial tree growing." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156038.
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This study explores the basis on which Papua New Guinean landowners make land- and resource-use choices, and considers the implications of these for the adoption of commercial tree growing. Theoretical insights from the Hierarchical Needs Theory, Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, and Farmer Adoption-Decision Framework enabled development of a conceptual model, the 'PNG Landowner Decision Environment'. This model was used to assess landowners' attitudes and behaviour relevant to the use of household assets, engagement in subsistence and cash-income generating activities, patterns of exchanges and consumption, and allocation of labour, land and financial resources, to understand their choices in land- and resource-use decisions. The primary research question was: On what basis do Papua New Guinea landowners make land-and-resource-use choices? This was investigated through two subsidiary questions: - What are landowner households' livelihood strategies? - How do these strategies influence landowner households' land- and resource- use choices? Field research was carried out over an 18-month period from late 2007 to early 2009, at four case study sites; in the Upper Ramu region of Madang Province; in the Upper Markham Valley region of Morobe Province; in the Middle Fly region of Western Province; and in the Gogol, Naru and North Coast region of Madang Province. Participant observation and individual and group interviews were the main research methods employed. In total, 268 participants, comprising 175 men and 93 women, representing 175 households were interviewed, A strong interrelationship was evident between the motivational factors of landowners and their land- and resources-use choices. Key factors were their needs and aspirations, the livelihood strategies and outcomes, their knowledge and skill base, the institutional systems and processes within which the landowners operated, and their capital assets. PNG landowners' attitudes and behaviour in relation to adoption choices are largely consistent with those of smallholder farmers elsewhere, with the level of participation and involvement in particular activities influenced by personal preferences and values, and by the imperative of satisfying their basic needs. Landowners' decisions focused on three time horizons: the immediate future, principally in terms of food production; annual or similar cycles, principally in relation to recurring cash requirements; and the much longer-term, which was associated with intermittent cash requirements and had significant legacy dimensions. Decisions about commercial tree growing options need to be linked to these considerations, and to the different planning horizons that PNG landowners pursue for various livelihood outcomes.