Hahalis and the labour of love : a social movement on Buka Island / Max and Eleanor Rimoldi.

This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Authors: Rimoldi, Max (Author), Rimoldi, Eleanor (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Explorations in anthropology.
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Summary:This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly sixty years, this book will be of particular interest to Melanesian specialists.
Item Description:"First published 1992 by Berg Publishers."
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages) : maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781003135036
100313503X
9781000324921
1000324923
9781000321449
1000321444
9781000323139
1000323137
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed October 2, 2020)
Biographical or Historical Data:Max Rimoldi Senior Lecturer in Anthropology,University of Auckland and Eleanor Rimoldi, Anthropologist, Researcher and Writer.