Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
by
Victoria C. Stead, Brij V. Lal
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples...