...Ryan Schram This article examines how the people of Auhelawa, a society on the south coast of Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea, make use of two historical figures—one a warrior, the other a police officer—to represent the nature of social transformation. In different ways, the stories of these...

...Jerry K. Jacka Ipili speakers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea creatively use the category “whiteman” both to structure their longing for socioeconomic progress and development and to critique the very institutions associated with development that they desire. This article explores the history...

...Ira Bashkow This paper is a report on millennial rumors that were circulating in 1998 in the Arapesh-speaking region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Given New Guinea's anthropological reputation as the land of millennial movements,we might expect the turning of the millennium to generate...

...Holger Jebens In Papua New Guinea it is widely believed that soon the biblically prescribed Second Coming of Jesus will end the world in its present state. This paper intends to examine the occurrence, change, and spread of apocalyptic narratives. I will summarize which eschatological signs have...

...Jan Bieniek; Garry W. Trompf This article compares ideas about the coming millennium in two culturally different parts of Papua New Guinea: Sek in Madang Province and Kasap in Enga Province. In both areas the Catholic church is historically predominant. Concerns and questions about whether the...

...Chris Ballard Christian notions of the Apocalypse, which were first introduced to Huli speakers of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea during the 1950s,encountered an existing indigenous eschatology, or doctrine of last things. Precontact Huli cosmology posited a moral constitution for the...

...Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew Strathern American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Allen, Bryant 1997 Frost and Drought in Papua New Guinea in 1997. http://coombs.anu.edu.aau...

... Cargo-Cult Discourse: Myth and the Rationalization of Labor Relations in Papua New Guinea. Dialectical Anthropology 13 : 157 -71. Burman, Rickie 1981 Time and Socioeconomic Change on Simbo, Solomon Islands. Man 16 : 251 -67. Counts, David, and Dorothy Counts 1976 Apprehension in the...

... suggestions. I am also pleased to present a highly topical special issue on the mil- lennial countdown in New Guinea. The topic of calendrical and temporal conceptions, and their moral and political implications, is inherently...

... Dale A. Zimmerman 1986 Birds of New Guinea . Princeton,nj: Princeton University Press. Brutti, Lorenzo 1997 Waiting for God: Ecocosmological Transformations among the Oksapmin. In Millennial Markers . Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds. Townsville,Australia: Center for Pacific Studies...

... Tribalism and the Arts of Memory in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. In Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific . Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas, eds. Pp. 65 -90. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic. Depdikbud 1982 Pengolahan dan Penyempurnaan Hasil Inventarisasi Kepercayaan terhadap Tuhan Yang Maha Esa...

..., cannibalism has remained important in many ethnographic 6698 Ethnohistory / 49:3 / sheet 200 of 252 fields, the most important for present purposes being Papua New Guinea, the research field of the majority of contributors to the volume edited by...

..., Polly, and Akii Tumu 1998 Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea . Washington, dc: Smithsonian Institution Press. in press Averting the Bush Fire Day: Ain's Cult Revisited.In Thinking and Engaging the Whole: Essays in Honor of Roy A. Rappaport . Ellen...

...- tary Fund/World Bank structural adjustment programs in countries such as Papua New Guinea would have to concur (see Stiglitz 2002 for non- Pacific examples). Not all contracts are negotiable, it would seem. Nor, then, should the negotiation of contracts necessarily be seen as (heroic) resistance to...

... because of this small market because, as Martha Macintyre has suggested for Papua New Guinea, many poems written for women’s conferences and church meet- ings are read aloud at village meetings, made into songs, and (where neces- sary) translated into local languages. ‘‘The poems inspire village women...

... Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia . Jelle Miedema, Cecilia Odé, Rien A. C. Dam, and Connie Baak, eds. Pp. 33 -50. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Darrouzet, Christopher 1985 Sorcery, Salvation,and the Politics of Death in a Lowland New Guinea Society: A Case Study of a Modernizing Culture and...

... violence they trigger are by Michael Brown and Eduardo Fernández on the Asháninka of Peru and by Andrew Strathern on the tribal societies of Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Viewing the Asháninka as ‘‘active shapers of their history’’ from until Brown and Fernández weigh the...

... reminds us, but it transformed everything in its path. Nothing was ever the same again. Anyone who suggests that the Amazon or Highland New Guinea or other provinces of the anthropological imaginary escaped its impact faces a heavy burden of proof. Yet Nugent’s arguments also have a musty feel. Since...

..., and government departments. Unlike other parts of New Britain, Bali Island was not invaded dur- ing World War II by either Japanese or American soldiers. Nevertheless, men were taken away by the Allies to fight the Japanese in other parts of New Guinea. Prior to World War II, significant...

... Eduardo Fernández on the Asháninka of Peru and by Andrew Strathern on the tribal societies of Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Viewing the Asháninka as ‘‘active shapers of their history’’ from until Brown and Fernández weigh the opportunities presented to ambitious headmen...