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Fun with anthropologists.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: Roger Sandall's reference (May 2007) to the subtlety, sensitivity and light touch of the anthropologist's ethos reminded me of researchers I knew long ago, in person and by reputation, when I was a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea and later a district officer in the Gilbert Islands. Most of them assumed they had high status in "their" village with "their" local people--inducted into the clan, and so on, as part of the mystical rite of passage needed to impress colleagues, students and academic editors.
Fairly or otherwise, many were in fact seen as patronising nuisances and dills, and were fed occasional nonsense as a form of local sport. That was how the people of Lesu village (now called Lossu) in New Ireland coped with Hortense Powdermaker, an American anthropologist who did ...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire October 14, 1997 700+ words
...group, today confirms that, as announced by New Ireland Holdings plc (New Ireland), it is in exclusive discussions concerning...offer for the entire issued share capital of New Ireland at a price of IR 23.82 pounds per New Ireland...
- First comprehensive display of New Ireland's art is foreign to the Western eye.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 10, 2006 700+ words
...glance, an exhibition of the art of New Ireland is bracing, and so very foreign to...death. They are among 79 works in "New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific," which...Guinea _ northeast of Australia. In New Ireland, nature is abundant and powerful...
- New Ireland malanggan art: a quest for meaning.(Author abstract)(Report)
- Magazine article from: Oceania Billings, Dorothy K. November 1, 2007 700+ words
While New Ireland malanggan carvings have attained fame...with it. While the raison d'etre of New Ireland malanggan has seemed elusive to researchers...story that relates well to northern New Ireland art; at least, not where I found...
- Waiting for the Day: Globalisation and Apocalypticism in Central New Ireland,...
- Magazine article from: Oceania Eves, Richard December 1, 2000 700+ words
...drought on the Lelet Plateau in central New Ireland, I examine the manner in which the...living at Kontu on the south coast of New Ireland, dreamed of an amazing sunrise, with...severe than any previously experienced in New Ireland. On the next Sunday, he announced...
- Papua New Guinea government to repay New Ireland Province debts.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire January 8, 2004 700+ words
...site on 8 January The private sector in New Ireland Province will have the majority of its...repaid by the provincial government. New Ireland Governor Ian Ling-Stuckey announced...Stuckey has reassured the people of New Ireland that his office would continue to consult...
- Gold hunt continues in PNG's New Ireland province.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire October 8, 2003 700+ words
...force sent to the remote west coast of New Ireland last week following a submission to...during World War II by Japanese forces. New Ireland Governor Ian Ling-Stuckey last night...large amount of gold bullion existed in New Ireland. "If it did, other greedy leaders...
- Starch residues on undecorated Lapita pottery from Anir, New Ireland.
- Magazine article from: Archaeology in Oceania Crowther, Alison July 1, 2005 700+ words
...pottery sherds from the Kamgot site, New Ireland, c. 3300 BP. The microbotanical remains...identification. Keywords: Colocasia esculenta, New Ireland, Lapita, starch...potsherds dating to c. 3300 BP from Anir, New Ireland (Figure 1). Preliminary identification...
- Mysticism and butter preservation.(George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland,...
- Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement Kennedy, Sean March 22, 2004 700+ words
...ALLEN. George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30. Four Courts Press, 2003...energies towards the creation of a "new Ireland of his own mind's eye" (26). The "New Ireland" of the title does not only refer to...
- Legitimacy, coercion, and leadership among the Sursurunga of southern New...
- Magazine article from: Ethnology Bolyanatz, Alexander H. January 1, 1994 700+ words
Local leadership in southern New Ireland, as in many places in Papua New Guinea...encountered among the Sursurunga of southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. That is, every...not so burdened. In the cases from New Ireland reported below, the cumulative dyadic...
- Thinking through images: kastom and the coming of the Baha'is to Northern New...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Were, Graeme December 1, 2005 700+ words
...century, non-literate societies such as New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), the focus for...shown how in both northern and southern New Ireland the articulation and disarticulation...understanding of religious belief in northern New Ireland. Stafford's assertion that part of...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fun with anthropologists.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)