Topic: theory

  • Bigmen and Wantoks: Social Capital and Group Behaviour in Papua New Guinea, Working Paper Number 27, Paolo de Renzio

    Source: https://core.ac.uk/ The concept of social capital has received a lot of attention in the social sciences in the last few years. It has come to be seen as an…

  • The Wantok System

    THE WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST ISLAND after Greenland is threaded with twisting rivers, rainforests, and swamps. Steep peaks and grassy highlands cross the center. For forty thousand years there were no centralized states.…

  • Concept: Wantok System

    Details The wantok system or wantokism is derived from the Solomons Pijin term for ‘one talk’, meaning from the same language, and implies giving preference to kin in the expectation of a series of…