Pathways of change : Socio-cultural change among the highlanders of western New Guinea

• Main Author: Anton Ploeg (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: pacific-credo Publications 2020
• Subjects: exogenous culture changes; bigmanisation?; socio-cultural changes; West Papua; migrations; wealth items; cowry revolution; sweet potato revolution; Social anthropology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This monograph is a comparative study of eight ways of life of highlanders in West Papua. It consists of ten sections: an introduction, a conclusion and eight ethnographic chapters, each dealing with a separate way of life. I chose this presentation since I wanted to make clear the individuality of...