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also applies to Sweden.) will have great wealth, and factories will be fired from the ground. Those who do not want to join came more to be annihilated by King Jesus/Charles. A modern and sophisticated cargothic knowledge that is world-wide, starting from Manus, Papua New Guinea’s smallest and most peripheral province. Small tiles in the Giants' Game The small state of Papua New Guinea has a powerful and expansive neighbor, Indone sien, who - unjustifiably and wrongly, a widespread view in Papua New Guinea - had to take over half the island of New Guinea by the Dutch. This half is today an Indonesian pro-wine, Irian Jaya. I’m not going to tell you about the conflict and about the guerrilla war that is going on in Irian Jaya - or West Papua, as it is called in Papua New Gui ​ ​ nea. It would require a whole series of articles. Here I just want to mention that relations between the two neighbours Papua New Guinea and Indone sia are formally satisfactory; many men’s niskes in Papua New Guinea, by contrast, fear that Indonesia will sooner or later invade their country. According to the nationalist Bernard Narakobi, several Indonesian generals, when they were captured a few years ago during the invasio of East Timor, had letters on them that were written by other Indonesian generals (it sounds intricate but I stick to the text of the book “Papa New Guinea, a Griua”). These letters, Narakobi argues, also contained directions to the invading generals that they would be particularly obsessive about 'independence movements in Papua New Guinea’. Indonesia, Narakobi argues, justified its invasion of East Timor by stating that instability on this island would be dangerous for the entire region. On the basis of this logic, one must conclude that political instability in Papua New Guinea would also “justify an Indonesian invasion.” It may soon be clear whether the government of Papua New Guinea is serious about Indonesia’s alleged and - if there is - highly dangerous interest in the young neighboring state’s inner, perhaps somewhat turbulent, life. A deposed provincial government at Manus, along with other troubles that naturally exist in the country, would not be the best evidence for a quiet political situation in Papua New Guinea. Perhaps we are soon told that the United States has established a new old raft base at Manus. In 1988, when I was in the area, persistent rumors circulated that the government in Port Moresby would be benevolently set to an alleged US request to be allowed to return to its old base. A US naval base at Manus would certainly calm Indonesia, one also means in the provincial government. It is not quite unlikely that the US looks after safer plat looks for its naval bases in the Pacific Ocean region than South Korea and the Philippines. Development, yes! - but how, under what conditions and in whose interest? In the exhibition “Melanesia: ritual and art” at the Museum-Etnogra ​ ​ Folkens, a selection of traditional objects from Melanesia is shown. I’ll try to make out what connection I think there is between my story about paliaurörel late and the exhibition. Today, traditional objects are in pain in Melanesia. There are several reasons for it. Of course, you, dear readers, realize that even the exposition at this museum has impoverished Melanesia on objects. I see it too. But the exhibition consists of a rather small number of objects. Many more have been taken to Europe by all the early travellers, colonial managers, missionaries and tourists. And the objects that were left have simply weathered in the tropical clima or were eaten up by various insects. In addition, like other carga movements, the paliau movement invited the abandonment of traditions and the destruction of all traditional objects in order to enable them to come. Today

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