Unseen City [electronic resource] : Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Unseen City [electronic resource] : Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Unseen City [electronic resource] : Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2005.
Date
2005.
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English
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1 online resource (239 p.)
Contents
Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Rolling Thunder to Reggae; Chapter 2 Off the Record; Chapter 3 ... Big-Man, Thief: the social organisation of gangs; Chapter 4 The Rascal Road; Chapter 5 Expressions of Interest: informal usury; Chapter 6 Reto's Chance: State and status in a settlement; Chapter...
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Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2005.
Date Published
2005.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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Based on the fieldwork of an anthropologist among people in Port Moresby's much-maligned migrant 'settlements'. It addresses the contemporary situation of these urban peoples, displacing popular generalizations with more detailed accounts which do justice to their resilience, and creative responses to the challenges of living in a burgeoning Melane...
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Unseen City [electronic resource] : Anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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74Vvxgwjx3BO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvxgwjx3BO
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ISBN
9781740761659
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307.76099545 307.7609954509051
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991016799269702626
