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Tag - Culture

Threshing rice in Bercoli, Timor-Leste (Lisa Palmer)

Life and governance in the rice fields of Timor-Leste

by Lisa Palmer
November 2, 2021
A woman in a white t-shirt, colourful skirt and blue broad-brimmed hat sits on wooden steps taking notes with pen and paper. In front of her sit two elderly people on a woven mat. Beside the is a house built on short stilts. In the background is a house with a palm frond roof.

An important book at a difficult time

by Michael Rose
August 17, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Poros (Akito Ximenes)

COVID-19: the view from a Timorese village

by Akito Ximenes and Michael Rose
July 20, 2021
Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

Foundations of classroom change in developing countries: a review

by Robert Cannon
April 23, 2021

COVID-19 and the haus krai

by Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
March 30, 2021
Jeremy Beckett

‘Some things that you don’t understand’: religion and development

by Gordon Peake and Julia Bergin
March 4, 2021
Cloud forests on the road to Yoka, Decha Woreda, Kafa Zone, southwest Ethiopia

Land use management in southwest Ethiopia: sociocultural and gender perspectives

by Ruth Jackson
December 3, 2020
A local guitarist on a mobile telephone screen, Irupara village, Central Province, PNG, 2019 (Denis Crowdy)

Local music sharing via mobile phones in Melanesia

by Amanda H A Watson, Denis Crowdy, Cameron Jackson and Heather Horst
September 25, 2020
L–R: East Sepik Province Governor Allan Bird, Oro Governor Gary Juffa, Angoram MP Salio Waipo wearing black to raise awareness on ending violence against women (Photo credit: Namorong Report)

Building a violence-free society in PNG

by Allan Bird
June 11, 2020
Market place at Kiunga, 24 March 2020, after Covid-19 ‘awareness’ by police (Credit: Senior Shintaro Dumo)

God, health and COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea

by Monica Minnegal and Peter Dwyer
April 16, 2020
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