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Thirty-one expatriate women tell us of their experiences of Papua New Guinea. Their voices are as diverse as the encounters they describe; their stories span the time between 1930 and 1990; together their responses challenge commonly held views of the expatriate condition.
'Readers will be drawn to share with the writers their exhilaration, dismay, guilt, fear, excitement, love lives, awe of landscape and sense of isolation - geographical and emotional - as they come to terms with life in Papua New Guinea. They will encounter birth, death, cargo cults, wilful and worthy servants, and discover unusual approaches to bridges that must be crossed . . .'
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Myra Jean Bourke taught at Rabaul Secretarial College in 1871-76 and accompanied her husband Mike to the Eastern Highlands; had two sons; studied; taught part-time at Ukarumpa High School; acquired many and varied friends; and left Papua New Guinea in 1983. Sue Holzknecht lived in Papua New Guinea from 1967 to 1990 teaching and doing research in anthropology and linguistics. Kathy Kituai lived in Port Moresby from 1980 to 1984. Linda Roach went to Papua New Guinea in 1972 with her husband who was doing research in a Sepik village.
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' . . . all of the contributions emerge as distinct, vivid gems - a little like the beads, shells, feathers and seeds strung together on a New Guinean necklace. The four editors are to be congratulated for having chosen so well from about one hundred contributions to five this book the substance, variety and immediacy that it has.' -- ]
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0522845630
- ISBN 13 9780522845631
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages197
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