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Social Change in Melanesia Development and History

Paperback • 2000 • English

Social Change in Melanesia Development and History

By Paul Sillitoe

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This book, first published in 2000, is a companion volume to An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia (1998). It gives a clear and absorbing account of social change in Melanesia since the arrival of Europeans covering the history of the colonial period and the new postcolonial states. Paul Sillitoe deals with economic and technological change, labour migration and urbanisation, and formation of the modern state, but he also describes the sometimes violent reactions to these dramatic tra...Show more

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9780521778060

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Social Change in Melanesia Development and History

Format

Paperback

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