Edward P. Wolfers

Posts and Dispatches from Edward P. Wolfers:

  • Ted Wolfers’ groundbreaking book on race relations in Papua New Guinea republished
    Distinguished academic Ted Wolfers’ groundbreaking book, Race Relations and Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea, has just been republished, forty years after the first edition appeared.  Based on a Newsletter that Dr. Wolfers wrote in the then Territory of Papua and New Guinea while an ICWA Fellow from 1967-71, the book is testimony to the...

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  • Edward P. Wolfers Newsletters
    Fellowship Years: 1967-1971 Fellowship Topic: The Territories of Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands; Irian Barat Fellowship Area: Papua, New Guinea Papua and New Guinea: An Introduction The End of “Administration”? Death of a Politician “Tok Pisin” The Formation of Parties Politics in a Primitive Area The Mount Hagen Show Goroka Market Return to Kokoda Party Time Again Alcohol...

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