NET Festival; 49; Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal. Part 2

The noise subsided the villagers who had thrown away all their old things in anticipation of the cargo were now ready to take the first practical steps towards each event of Paoli hours long term. In 1953 when I arrived and learned that I was to graduate students. Ted Swartz and his wife I was confronted with conflicting rumors about power in his movement and by a massive left over from the American occupation. The good news that had come to take us to the village right ahead of time and caught us with our cargo still in the big old is a cook who had brought me out to parry 25 years earlier was there to greet us. In a village it was immediately clear that sweeping changes had been made. Suggestion that the Manas villagers move on to the land and the land people in the U.S. I moved down to the shore had been carried out almost everything about the

old culture had been revised. There was a central square for meeting with the houses of the most important and I ranged around the sound of a gun made from an old Army shelter it was a signal for the beginning and the end of almost every daily task. Chama no work was assigned a daily nine hour reminiscent of those that used to take place when the district officer visited the village. They still built their canoes exactly as they had before and fished in the same old way. They had kept their basic methods of making a living but they had stripped off all the elaborate exchanges which once drove the older men incessantly and slaving young men to their economic backers. The village next to parry was a kind of dying village where former enemies work and play together. But warrior skills were not easily acquired by the learned people and some OCI women had trouble with canoes.

It was a good deal of close order drill. And in the endless group activities strict attention was paid to the straightness of the line. Shame and anger had been officially banished husbands and wives ate and talked together and went about together as Europeans did what they wanted was both the form and the spirit of relationships between people. New forms of cooperation new ways of bringing up children. It was all a little rigid and dogmatic as people are likely to be who try to follow foreign models which they don't quite understand. But it was a start and the people were trying hard.

The grandson of the time decided that the village could not afford to wait for a school so he organized one. Even though he had had only two years of schooling just through short division. What a school you caught the children. Arrange them by size march them and sat them down and made them keep quiet. But promise emphasized this wasn't a real school. He was just keeping the children's minds clean until the teacher was married for the fourth time. Occasionally the freedom of the new fella fashion results.

I mean any argument between a man's right and a woman suspected of having an affair with one of the children played online as they had once played in the water the American occupation had left in its wake. All sorts of children no longer ran away from adult activity as they went. They worked beside their parents and attended the long meeting were special. September 7 1967 meanders vacation has come to an end and she is leaving the village to return to the university Portnoy's her departure underlines a problem that threatens the future of caring to get an education. The children must leave the village and there is always the possibility that they won't return

for dollars and sixteen dollars from me. This is to look after you on your journey and if you need money you see you spend it. And then what is left you can buy your other books. Now I may see you in my spree and I may not. So I'm going to say goodbye now. I don't think you could buy my junior high school as a half way in the neighboring village of the high school in learning how can only be reached by a three hour commute and the university is important only the younger children can be accommodated in the Perry primary school. Mine wasn't goes

away this morning. Yesterday I send those people free. I say you will not and I quote. All right. Today 10 o'clock. I wonder if people do come to me that rate the rate the rate the rate the rate that rate lets rate the rate that is. Now I want to talk to you a little bit about what you will be doing as you grow older. Now one of Guinea is becoming a country isn't it. It's becoming a nation which means you want to be able to talk to the people that you mean. Now when you go to the way to school and meet schoolchildren from all over the territory from told by school children and school children from more Israeli and

school children from the trouble and from New Ireland and from what language when you speak to the English won't you people who can only speak can't go very far can they. But people who speak English can go to Sydney and maybe one or two of you someday will go to the United Nations whereas the United Nations. Where is the United Nations. In what city and what city is the United Nations in. Doesn't anybody know where the United Nations is or isn't. Come on now why aren't you. You know what we would say to you when the United States would say that the cat had gotten your tongues it wasn't pussy his hometown baloney. So no one would talk.

Now the United Nations is in New York isn't it. If you went to New York what language would you speak English. So if you learn English then you can go all over the world. Nixon pressured efforts to become a nation make Portnoy's difficult to discuss this was during the early years of the new fella fashion the hopes and dreams apparently were part of it is not so easy to dream important ways of turning the

territory into a nation they are even more terrifying than the problems of changing Paris from the Stone Age village into a 20th century society. There are some 600 separate languages in the Territory areas where head hunting is only recently been abolished and hundreds of villages where there is much less education and political sophistication than in Paris. The Australians in Port Moresby are caught between a desire to see the territory achieved nationhood as quickly as possible and some of the old fashioned attitudes left over from earlier times about the people of New Guinea. Today in the House of Assembly the representative knows the difficulties in uniting his own small archipelago but he sees his role in the wider context of helping the

territory achieve nation has great leadership capacity. But he may not be able to complete the new task he has set for himself he does not speak English and in a few years his place will have to be taken by a younger man who does. There is every likelihood that pallium successor will come from among the monist boys who were classmates of neander at the university. These alerts live really curious children are the richest resource of caring. It has few economic resources but year after year it produces children who go on to become part of the new educated group on a very popular New Guinea nationhood will depend in an administrative union with the Australian position of popular Das.

The territory of popular and New Guinea came into being. But we don't know what you thought about someone going to London I feel for you will not be talking about it we're not going to. September 10 1967 Puranas the schoolteacher in 1953 has exploded in one of his rages. The older men are angry at him for starting to build a house on the spot that destroys the symmetry of the village square. But the underlying cause is the reluctance of the older generation to hand on authority to the younger premis is currently the Council of Perry the highest elected official in the village. And you want to

know what you want to do with the old women consider him somewhat of a young upstart. Actually premise is the personification of the attentions of men of his age in the new style of fashion. Born in the old tradition he is deeply committed to the new way but with a rigidity that turns to rage when his pride is hurt. Do you have any. You

cannot. Me We like talk talk but along something you come up before Petra say no stop Johnny stop. Now now me tink tink young feller Manny no good big from a man he said don't come you make him go to place. You got a long time you make him get a place here. I think you know you always seemed to me to get how much you are

together John here now. Now look now for Christmas market place before you know monkey. You want to get a new monkey now. Now I know you're going to be using me when there's something wrong or when it's been

a long time you now have a place along time money making place. Many make you place the making of a place together something that's all. Down on top of that are many like me talking about the problem and you think in this one of them no

sorry that's all you know done to give a man to get up on this for a long cross now fight through him killing you not killing you. John can go to killing all right now nine hundred forty nine hundred fashionable 1946. That's all changing and changing something to get up to go along house. You fell apart. I go along and you know sit down on something changing changing. Afternoon

afternoon afternoon to September 16 1967 Carol has come to Perry from Port Moresby during a recess of the House of Assembly a prayer for New Guinea to which she was elected four years ago. He's up for re-election this year and he's visiting Perry to deliver a campaign speech. We're not going on I want to get out before long that I might not maybe without a lot of it out now but I am a step today on September 11 1967. I may come I've got a long look in your wallet. Now the last American family stuck around today long you want us out of assembly craft long ninety six before

you feel like having sex before. Well I mean right now you got it when to me long 1964. Well I want you but I want to meet. You're right I went to Milan and you win and you're not 1946 now 47 48. We're going to go now from now no we're not going to have not called you walk in I'm not going you know what you want but I'm not one for not being one for I want one for the praise you have I know that we not only want to meet I will not buy him a long letter and I'm not going 64 when I was in my family but I you but I we meet on the election. Now we march along you'll get off the mark but on you but I love what I'm doing.

Mark why don't you have a law for me I have a lot of your life. I have a lot of people I'm going to have a lot. Yeah but not me. We're not in your wife's preamble I'm tough proper and you want to be wrong you people I mean five months pregnant mom has been shot down not down the runway. Maybe you know Mark we don't you know I have a long you live a long year long out of you young man Larry that one man. Stop with you right around dawn when I'm 70. He's got a lot of you must put on you got a good grade. You got a lot out of the family now. You got one last meeting that kind of problem that

I'm out. We're going to finish them now I'm back now making. I was at grouse about 1968 not to force something but I knew what you are going to see and you are not you're not I fucked up Freddy you know. But driving around to see him for the new thing going on a long 1968 long election lonely spot along the harbor thinking good now I think that's what I'm going to finish. I meant off can't go. I mean I'm not around to tell you when I come off now they've gotta look at me but I let me talk properly belong to the left you know. Thank you very much I want to thank you very much. September

19 1967 the issue of crevasses House has been resolved. You know leaders have decided they have promised to build his house on a good piece of land and prana is pacified as agreeing to the plan. Both sides have been allowed to retain their self-respect and dignity and a new understanding has been built between the older and younger generation. When an anthropologist has been intimately involved in the life of a village for almost 40 years everything that happens sets up echoes of other similar events. Twenty years ago these same men tore down

a village go to overwater and reconstructed it on land. This tearing down so as to rebuild in a better way is painful but inevitable. It's happening all over the world wherever people are trying to change their way of life. I find myself much more committed to change than to the mere recording of the status quo. However harmonious and beautiful that status quo. Perhaps it's because temperamentally I like effort and perhaps it's because what people are trying to do in America in Africa and here in Paris is so important and so difficult. I am

yes I am. Ever since they moved to shore the village has had problems but problems are the inevitable result of the decision to enter the modern world and to take on the privileges and burdens of choice. Now I know not what I am. I am I am.

September

20th 1960 and a baby is born until such a marriage would have occurred. Why. Now

Me Me Me Me Me Me Tell You make me get a man a man on the

face. Now it is very important that the new generation have learned English and when they come back they bring new customs and remember the way you forget your grandfather's your great grandfather and where they are and what they did. Then you people that have no ground under your feet who have no in the ground. Only in the present and have no idea how to get a hold to only making

making you think man know 1946 many come up now. Many like you think. Come on. Thank you very much. Thank you good bye good bye.

Thank you. If I can come back on you. Thank you. Some of the kids he was full time me now have you you're

right. One time he felt good by. Thank

God. With or without without really very very damning me hand his hand in hand and hand me.

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