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- Title: Tea and Tinned Fish: Christianity, Consumption and the Nation in Papua New Guinea.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 226 KB
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INTRODUCTION: MOTHER'S MILK In Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Gogodala recollections of national Independence in 1975 are dominated by a cultural 'revival'. During the early 1970s, Anthony Crawford, an expatriate Australian working with the Commonwealth Advisory Board, proclaimed in several publications that the Gogodala had experienced a 'cultural revival' after the destruction of their culture by evangelical missionaries during the colonial period (see for example Crawford 1981, 1976, 1976a, 1975). This revival, initiated by Crawford's interest in local painted and carved objects, culminated in the building of a traditional style longhouse as the Gogodala Cultural Centre. The Centre housed a great number of a revived style of carvings, in the form of elaborately pigmented and decorated canoes, paddles, crocodiles, drums and headdresses, and was opened in 1974 by then Chief Minister, Michael Somare (later PNG's first and current Prime Minister). The Gogodala 'cultural revival', valorised in nationalist discourses as one of the first examples of a new nation's 'unity through cultural diversity' policy, and vilified in other, academic contexts, as 'cultural folklorization', marked a time in which village people experienced a level of personal interaction with national leaders and institutions. (1) It was referred to by some as the 'selling days', when aspects of Gogodala iniwa ela gi or 'customary ways" were marketable (see Dundon 2004). (2)