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Papua New Guinea

(see also Australia, Pacific Islands General & Indonesia: West Papua)


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Basics:

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators

World Guide

On the Web: Articles

Papua New Guinea Government Rules Out Independence for Bougainville. Peter Byrne & Peter Symonds, World Socialist Site (ICFI) (10/16/99).

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Bougainville Freedom Movement.

Bougainville Independence. World History Archives.

CocoNET Wireless. Pacific regional news.

Human Rights Watch: Papua New Guinea.

Solidarity South Pacific.

Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO).

WWW Virtual Library.

In the Library: Articles

Barnes, J.A. "Indigenous politics & colonial administration, with special reference to Australia," Comparative Studies in Society & History 2 (1960:133-49.

Jacka, Jerry K. "Whitemen, the Ipili, & the city of gold: a history of the politics of race & development in highlands New Guinea," Ethnohistory 54,3 (sum 2007):445-72.

LiPuma, Edward. "The genesis of Maring Christianity: the first quarter-century, 1955-1980," Ethnohistory 45,4 (fall 1998):621-56.

Stewart, Pamela J. & Andrew Strathern. "Feasting on my enemy: images of violence & change in the New Guinea highlands," Ethnohistory 46,4 (fall 1999):645-70.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Bettison, David G. (ed.) The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964 (Canberra:Australian National U, 1965).

Cleland, Dame Rachel. Papua New Guinea: Pathways to Independence. Official & Family Life (Perth: Artlook, 1983).

Cochrane, Glynn. Big Men & Cargo Cults (Oxford, 1970). Social movements in Papua & Solomons, 1916-1967.

Connell, John. Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development (NY: Routledge, 1997).

Cumberland, Kenneth B. Southwest Pacific: A Geography of Australia, New Zealand & their Pacific Island Neighbors (NY, 1968).

Dorney, Sean. Papua New Guinea: People, Politics & History since 1975 (rev. ed.; Sydney: ABC Books, 2000).

Gewertz, Deborah B. Sepik River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chambri & their Neighbors (New Haven: Yale, 1983).

Good, Kenneth. Papua New Guinea: A False Economy (London: Anti-Slavery Society, 1986).

Gordon, Donald. The Australian Frontier in New Guinea, 1870-1885 (NY, 1951).

Griffin, James (ed.) Papua New Guinea Portraits: The Expatriate Experience (Canberra: Australian National U, 1978).

Hempenstall, Peter J. Pacific Islanders under German Rule: A History in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance (Canberra: Australian National U, 1978).

Hiery, Hermann Joseph. The Neglected War: The German South Pacific & the Influence of World War I (Honolulu: U. Hawaii, 1995).

Huber, Mary Taylor. The Bishops' Progress: A Historical Ethnographty of Catholic Missionary Experience on the Sepik Frontier (Washington, 1988).

Hyndman, David. Ancestral Rain Forests & the Mountain of Gold: Indigenous Peoples & Mining in New Guinea (Boulder: Westview, 1994).

Kiki, Albert Maori. Kiki. Ten Thousand Years in a Lifetime. A New Guinea Autobiography (NY, 1968). Story of a leading Papuan political figure from tribal upbringing, through education in Fiji, World War II & colonial politics.

King, David & Stephen Ranck (eds.) Papua New Guinea Atlas: A Nation in Transition (n.p., 1982?).

Kitual, August Ibrum K. My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960 (Honolulu: U. Hawaii, 1998).

Latukefu, Sione (ed.) Papua New Guinea: A Century of Colonial Impact, 1884-1984 (Boroko PNG: National Research Institute & U. of PNG, 1989).

Legge, J.D. Australian Colonial Policy (Sydney, 1956).

Mair, Lucy P. Australia in New Guinea (London, 1948).

Markham, Edward A. A Papua New Guinea Sojourn: More Pleasures of Exile (Manchester: Carcanet, 1998).

Moore, Clive & Mary Kooyman (eds.) A Papua New Guinea Political Chronicle, 1967-1991 (Bathurst NSW: Crawford House, 1998).

Nelson, Hank. Papua New Guinea: Black Unity or Chaos? (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

Reed, S.W. The Making of Modern New Guinea, with Special Reference to Contact History in the Mandate Period (Philadelphia, 1943).

Tanham, George K. Papua New Guinea Today (Santa Monica: Rand Corp, 1990).

Turner, Mark M. Papua New Guinea: The Challenge of Independence (Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1990).

Utrecht, Ernst. Papua New Guinea: An Australian Neo-Colony (Sydney: U. of Sydney Transnational Corporations Research Project, 1977).

Weisbrot, David. Papua New Guinea's Indigenous Jurisprudence & the Legacy of Colonialism (Sydney, 1988).

Woodward, Mary. Papua New Guinea: The Third World on our Doorstep (n.p.: Religious Society of Friends in Australia, 1977).

Woolner, Derek. Papua New Guinea: Twenty Years On (Canberra: Parliamentary Research Service, 1995).

Worsley, Peter. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia (NY: Schocken, 1968).

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