Paul Sillitoe

Social Change in Melanesia

Development and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of social change in Melanesia covering the colonial period and the post-colonial era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780521778060
• ISBN-10: 0521778069
• Artikelnr.: 22362088

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Change and development
2. The arrival of Europeans
3. Another history
4. Technological change and economic growth
5. Land rights and community
6. Business big men as entrepreneurs
7. From tribespeople to peasants
8. Mining, misunderstanding, and insurrection
9. Forestry and local knowledge
10. Migration and urbanisation
11. Cargo cults and millennial politics
12. Missionaries and social change
13. From tribal to state politics
14. Custom and identity.