Photographs |
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Acknowledgements |
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Abbreviations |
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Introduction |
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1 | (6) |
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Passages to Papua New Guinea |
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7 | (32) |
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7 | (7) |
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Women and children first: the 1942 evacuation |
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14 | (8) |
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New beginnings: after the war |
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22 | (4) |
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The romance of the tropics |
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26 | (13) |
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39 | (25) |
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40 | (8) |
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48 | (5) |
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53 | (3) |
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Homo hierarchicus: status relations in the white colony |
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56 | (8) |
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White Women in Papua New Guinea: Relative Creatures? |
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64 | (36) |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (6) |
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God's family in the missions |
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73 | (7) |
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Women as workers: the mission sisters |
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80 | (7) |
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Treading on a man's territory |
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87 | (9) |
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Single women on the loose |
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96 | (4) |
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In Town and Down the Road |
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100 | (33) |
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100 | (10) |
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Opening up the Highlands: Mendi |
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110 | (6) |
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116 | (9) |
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125 | (8) |
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War, a Watershed in Race Relations? |
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133 | (31) |
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The racism of imperialism |
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134 | (3) |
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The colonialism of the colonised |
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137 | (5) |
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Rule by force: kiap versus missionary |
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142 | (7) |
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Land ownership: the fruits of benign neglect? |
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149 | (1) |
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Labour policies: benign intervention? |
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150 | (8) |
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158 | (2) |
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160 | (4) |
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164 | (26) |
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Staying in line: cultural markers in colonial society |
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164 | (8) |
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172 | (4) |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (11) |
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190 | (31) |
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Constructing the feminine: Darwinism and Western dualism |
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191 | (4) |
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Keeping up to the mark: white men |
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195 | (10) |
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The unspeakable---white woman and black man |
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205 | (6) |
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`A man with a man's passions' |
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211 | (4) |
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White missus and black boi |
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215 | (6) |
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221 | (29) |
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Women in the colonial project |
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221 | (9) |
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230 | (6) |
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White women---the ruin of male empire? |
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236 | (14) |
Appendix 1: Biographical Notes |
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250 | (12) |
Appendix 2: Key Events in Chronological Order |
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262 | (5) |
Notes |
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267 | (37) |
Bibliography |
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304 | (14) |
Glossary |
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318 | (3) |
Index |
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