Emplaced Myth: Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea

2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Roger Ivar Lohmann ◽  
Alan Rumsey ◽  
James F. Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Aboriginal Australia

Neighbours and Strangers — on Losing the Track

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cawte
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health System ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Aboriginal Australia ◽  
The North

The cultural gap between the colonists and their indigenous neighbours was an insurmountable tracking difficulty for the young nations of Australia and New Zealand. Scattered across the island continent lived Aborigines, unappreciated; and to the north, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The cultural distance, one of colour, of custom, of creed, of consciousness and of cash, was too wide to cross. But cultural distances between neighbours inevitably lead to tracking failures, characterized by misconceptions, fears, and ultimately, conflict. Psychiatry has some capacity to define these tracking failures, and to assess their danger. In this paper, Australia's psychiatric approach to its neighbours is examined. Two challenges are specified. In the developing countries: it is subsistence versus surplus psychiatry — do we comprehend the distinction?? In Aboriginal Australia: it is the Aboriginal mental health system — do we appreciate its existence? An Aboriginal scripture (bark painting) provides the text.

Public Health in Papua New Guinea

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Denoon ◽  
Kathleen Dugan ◽  
Leslie Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: Searching for a Fit Between Child, Culture, and School

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 786-788
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Child Culture

Going Native? Test Development and Adaptation for Papua New Guinea

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Tristan ◽  
Mei-Chuan Kung ◽  
Peter Caccamo
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Test Development ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Going Native
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