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 Seagulls Don’t Fly into the Bush Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia
Alice Pomponio
How do people living in rural areas of
developing nations understand and participate in “development”? The answers from
Mandok Island of Papua New Guinea challenge the standard fare of “development
studies.” While most studies of international development view it from the top
down and in economic terms, Seagulls Don’t Fly into the Bush approaches
the topic from the bottom up and in cultural terms. This book offers an
ethnographic perspective to the process of economic development that outlines
perceived cultural identity as a major influence on the Mandok’s understanding
of and responses to their economic position in the global economy by examining a
series of apparent paradoxes and resolving them in terms of Mandok culture and
history. $20.50 list, 242 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-154-0 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-154-2 © 1992 “Through her use of lucid language and concise explanation of selected anthropological concepts, Pomponio succeeds in making the contemporary Melanesian experience accessible to readers.” —Pacific Studies
Table of Contents
Introduction |