...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...

...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...

...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...

... suffering generated by International Mone- 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...

... Struggles of Women and Girls, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. In Reflections on Violence in Melanesia. Sinclair Dinnen and Allison Ley, eds. Pp. 159 -71. Sydney: Hawkins; Canberra: Asia Pacific. George, Nicole 2001 Melanesian Women and the Articulation of a Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented...

... aquisition of wealth. Pamela J. Stewart’s (1998: 285) comment that ‘‘the ac- quisition of wealth through exchange practices across New Guinea seems 5996 Ethnohistory / 47:1 / sheet 73 of 281 to be connected in various ways with notions of fertility’’ comes close to...

... 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...

.... 1996 Waterfalls of Song: An Accoustemology of Place Resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. In Senses of Place. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso, eds. Pp. 91 -135. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. Foucault, Michel 1977 Discipline and Punish:The Birth of the Prison. New York...

... 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...

..., born in Portugal and the offspring of an affair between the village priest and his slave from Guinea, had a fierce reputation for straightening out questions of love and justice. As a zahori, a clairvoyant who ‘‘could see right into people’s insides28 she was sought after by Spaniards, doñas, free...