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The Body Social and the Body Politic in the Menyamya-Aseki District: Local politics and the 2022 PNG National Election

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Mimica, Jadran

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Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University

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In July–August 2022, I carried out an ethnographic study of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) national election in the Menyamya-Aseki District, with the focus on the Yagwoia people and their Menya-speaking neighbouring territorial groups (TGs), all of them located in the Kome local level government (LLG) administrative unit. I did this thanks to the invitation by Dr Thiago Oppermann and Professor Nicole Haley of the Department of Pacific Affairs, the Australian National University, my alma mater. The motivation for this invitation was my longterm anthropological relationship with the Yagwoia, spanning at that time 45 years ...

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