{"product_id":"2026200012799-secondhand-the-chimbu-a-study-of-change-in-the-new-guinea-highlands","title":"The Chimbu: A Study Of Change In The New Guinea Highlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mist-shrouded highlands of New Guinea, where ancient clan traditions collide with the unstoppable forces of modernity, Paula Brown's The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands presents a rigorous and vivid account of one of the world's most compelling social transformations. Published as part of the prestigious International Library of Anthropology, this landmark work chronicles the Chimbu people — a densely populated highland group — navigating the seismic shifts brought by colonial contact, the introduction of a cash economy, and the disruption of traditional political and ceremonial life. Brown, drawing on extensive fieldwork, details with precision the mechanisms by which a society simultaneously preserves its cultural identity and adapts to an encroaching external world. The result is a portrait of resilience and rupture that is as analytically sharp as it is humanly resonant.\n\nBrown's scholarship situates The Chimbu within the broader anthropological tradition of studying social change in Melanesia, and her approach — empirical yet deeply attentive to indigenous perspectives — set a standard for fieldwork-based ethnography. Her prose is measured and authoritative, reflecting decades of engagement with Chimbu society, and she argues convincingly that the patterns of change observed here illuminate universal processes of cultural adaptation under pressure. For students of anthropology, Pacific history, and postcolonial studies alike, this volume remains an indispensable text — one that leaves the reader questioning just how much any society can truly change before it ceases to be itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131002462427,"sku":"2026200012799-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bc1ce2bf-bd25-4f8a-b028-eac50911336d.png?v=1786594320","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012799-secondhand-the-chimbu-a-study-of-change-in-the-new-guinea-highlands","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}