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Book Reviews Emerging Class in Papua New make traditional social claims on Guinea: The Telling of Difference, members of the middle class coldly by Deborah B Gewertz and Frederick repelled. K Errington. Cambridge: Cambridge Gewertz and Errington are sharply University Press, 1999. i s b n cloth, critical of these developments. In fact, 0 –521– 65212–x; paper, 0 –521– their book is unabashedly polemical. 65567–6; x + 179 pages, map, photo- A strong statement on class is com- graphs, notes, references, index. pletely in order, and this one rests on Cloth, us$54.95; paper, us$19.95. solid ethnography. As I made my way through this book, however, two Papua New Guinea left behind the related points began to nag at me. indignities of colonial rule only in the First, the authors frequently compare 1970s. Yet, as Deborah Gewertz and the cruelties of class with indigenous Frederick Errington show in this social forms. They generally portray ground-breaking ethnography, some the latter sympathetically. This could of this new nation’s citizens are now easily lead a naive reader to romanti- inflicting similar indignities on their cize indigenous Papua New Guinean fellows and busily building the ideol- society and take a one-dimensional ogies and institutions
The Contemporary Pacific – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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