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Report on R. V. Akademik Vernadsky cruise 39, stage IV, June 17 - July 17, 1989
Participation by U. S. personnel on Cruise 39, Leg IV (June 17 - July 17, 1989) of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute's
research vessel Akademik Vernadsky provided valuable information, documented in the present report for planning future cooperative
projects with Soviet oceanographers. Detailed descriptions are given of the ship, its scientific laboratories, computers and onboard
instrumentation. Planning and operating procedures are described and examples are given of daily work plans, seminars,
menus and social activities. Personal accounts by the U. S. participants are also included. Many of the shipboard activities were
recorded on VHS video cassettes.
The oceanographic data collected in the Gulf Stream survey region during Leg IV are documented in the report. Copies of
data sets were provided to the U. S. participants in exchange for U. S. data from the region during the survey period.Funding was provided by Vetelsen,
the Education Office of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and
a Dr. Willam B. Richardson Summer Fellowship provided by
Alden Products Company
Learning to Believe in Papua New Guinea
This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples lain” or rural population, who are thought to maintain many traditional practices, including witchcraft and sorcery. Drawing on ethnographic research among nursing students in the Eastern Highlands, I examine the ways that class identity and Pentecostal social forms coalesce, giving students resources for narrating, understanding, and resisting the dangers they face as social outsiders and (future) employees of a neglectful state. Looking specifically at events during a nursing practicum in rural Eastern Highlands Province, I describe how students and their teachers collapsed different forms of invisible violence—both traditional and contemporary—into a generic evil to be discerned and resisted. Following Robbins (2009) I argue that witchcraft talk is exceptionally socially productive—in this case, productive of a distinctly Christian, professional class identity in which the problems created by “the villagers” and “pasin tumbuna” (ancestral practices) are objects of profound concern.falseAccepte
Garden and homestead
Garden and homestead, Victoria River Downs station.Kettle, Ellen.Date:195
Ellen S. Kettle
Three Aboriginal women and young child, Delissaville.Kettle, Ellen.Date:195
Crater Lake
A corner of Crater Lake from which Rum Jungle and Batchelor receive their water supply. Volcanic lake, very pretty, beautiful water.Kettle, Ellen.Date:1950-0
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