Oliver Kortendick:

Knowledge Transmission and Political Communication
The anatomy of a village in North-West Papua New Guinea

Q.  20  Suppose you like to construct a fence or make firewood
        or another similar task and you had no adze. Whom 
        would you ask to lend you one?

Q.  21  Suppose you wish to buy some soap and you do not have
        the money for it, whom would you ask for this money?

Q.  22  Suppose you have to get together a large sum of money,
        for instance to pay bride price or High School fees.
        Whom would you ask for help?

Q.  23  In whose house would you spent the night if you were 
        to go to this villages? I will read out the names of 
        these villages
        (INT.: Read out villages of LIST 7!)

Q.  24  Give me the names of the people with whom you have 
        contact rather frequently, as once a week or once a
        month, and you meet socially
 
Q.  25  If you had sorrows, e.g. you had run into troubles, 
        to whom would you go and talk about your sorrows

Q.  26  Suppose you need advice on what to do, as you do not 
        know whether to take on wage labour or you think of 
        leaving the village and go to the town, and it is not 
        clear to you how you want to decide, whom will you ask
        for advice?

Q.  27  Suppose you are ill and you cannot move around, you 
        have to lie in your house. Whom would you ask to help 
        you, as to take care of you and fetch you food?


Q.  28  Most people from time to time do the following. They 
        talk about the government, e.g. they talk about what 
        they think of the work of the government. You, 
        yourself have you also done so? And with whom have you
        talked like this during the last months? 

Q.  29  In your opinion, who are the people that have 
        the biggest influence in your local council? 
 

Q.  30  In your opinion, who are the most important 
        persons in that area? 
        INTERVIEWER:


        After you finished the previous questions, ask:



Q.  31  Is there anyone else who is IMPORTANT to you, not 
        mentioned so far? 

Oliver Kortendick, Knowledge Transmission and Political Communication - The anatomy of a village in North-West Papua New Guinea, http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Sonja/Oliver/Papuafrequencies/deckblatt.htm, Canterbury 1998

Copyright: Oliver Kortendick 1998. You may not use or cite this work without written permission by the author (oliver.kortendick@epost.de).

This research was partially financed by the European Commission/DGVIII.

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