The State and Its Enemies in Papua New Guinea - Brossura

Wanek, Alexander

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0700703047 ISBN 13: 9780700703043

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1995

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A study of nation-building processes in the young state of Papua New Guinea, and of opposition to these in one of the country's peripheral provinces, Manus. Intense resistance to Lucifer (the state) is offered there by Wind Nation, the old Paliau Movement made famous by Mead and Schwartz.

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A study of nation-building processes in the young state of Papua New Guinea, and of opposition against these in one of the country's peripheral provinces, Manus. Intense resistance is offered there by a movement called Wind Nation. Wind Nation is nothing less than the old Paliau Movement, made famous by the two American anthropologists Margaret Mead and Theodore Schwartz. Paliau Maloat, Wind Nation's late founder and leader, has introduced a quasi-biblical ideology which labels the state as "Lucifer", and his movement fights Lucifer by means of riots, demonstrations and court-cases. Throughout Papua New Guinea movements with similar objectives make up a policentric process, of some bearing for the identity of the young state and its citizens.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0700703047
• ISBN 13: 9780700703043
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352