0204 | Do You Know What You’re Doing Lord? – Carol Anderson
Context: Finished this off as the wife was cleaning jewellery which had gone mouldy whilst in storage in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW In the missionary-lore of Papua New Guinea, the…
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0189 | The Voice of the Tambaran – Donald Tuzin
Context: Read this throughout the first week of Wimbledon and finished it just as Serena Williams won her quarterfinal match. REVIEW Tambaran is more than a sum of ideas and…
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0184 | Delivering the Goods – Colin Swatridge
Context: Moved my desk to a doorway to get a better wireless connection while reading this. REVIEW The latest in a series of books I’m reading at the moment to…
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0183 | Mambu – Kenelm Burridge
Context: Discovered the music of Eric Bibb while reading this one. Love it. REVIEW This is a bit mistitled I feel. Perhaps Kenelm felt that a name like Mambu would…
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0182 | Road Belong Cargo – Peter Lawrence
Context: The first book I read in a new pile of hard to find anthropology and linguistics books from Cambridge University Library which my resourceful helper found for me. REVIEW…
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0173 | Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction – Don Kulick
REVIEW This is an excellent book. It is at once thought-provoking, revealing, informative and very well written. Kulick spends months and months in the village of Gapun where no one…
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0168 | The Bishops’ Progress – Mary Taylor Huber
REVIEW This one might be hard to get hold of and I’m not entirely sure that if you have to work hard to get it, it’s going to be all…
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0162 | A Short History of Papua New Guinea – John Waiko
Context: Courtesy of the mother in law, I read this while working in the Wycliffe kitchens. REVIEW Reading up on PNG history is one of the areas I’m focussing on…
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0149 | Becoming Sinners – Joel Robbins
Context: Read this as part of my preparation for language survey in PNG this summer. REVIEW Robbins has written a fascinating insight into the cultural mindset of the Urapmin people…