Exogenous cultural change in the background of the generational change: the case from Papua New Guinea

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/se-2019-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/se-2019-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exogenous cultural change in the background of the generational change: the case from Papua New Guinea

Original language description

An analysis of cultural change and generation gaps in the local community of the Nungon ethnic group in the state of Papua New Guinea will be the subject of the study. This ethnic group came into contact with Europeans for the first time in the mid-1930s. The pace of cultural changes within the community has been gradually increasing. For example, the local animistic cult has been replaced with Christianity, school attendance has been introduced in the villages of Nungon, travel opportunities have become more accessible, and as the mobile signal has recently been introduced, Nungon residents can now connect to the internet and access information about the globalised world. Those who remember the colonial period still live in the community and many of them are still illiterate, with only limited knowledge of Pidgin English, the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea. On the other hand, the youngest generation can study in cities or experiment with social media and share information there. The aim of the paper is not only to show intergenerational differences, but also to document the local history and its ties to particular generations and show the role the generational memory played in illiterate societies with unwritten history. The only existing written and photographic documents were created by colonial officers. The study will show the transformation of the Nungon community from the time of photographs kept in boxes to the youngest generation, which keeps photographs in mobile phones and shares them on social media.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovensky Narodopis-Slovak Ethnology

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

216-230

UT code for WoS article

000484819200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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