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Indigenous Infrastructures of Care and Survival in Papua New Guinea: Rethinking Pacific Health through Oral Histories of the Second World War (2021)

Stead, Victoria (Author)

Health and History
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 71-94

DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.23.2.0071

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5401/healthhist.23.2.0071

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Women in medicine Colonialism Indigenous peoples; indigeneity Health care World War II Oral history 20th century, early Papua New Guinea

Drawing on a body of oral history interviews about local experiences of the Second World War, this paper seeks to map the contours of a local, Indigenous infrastructure of care and survival in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. This vernacular infrastructure stands in contrast to the colonial-military health infrastructure privileged within colonial records and subsequent accounts of health in the postwar Pacific. Oral histories, particularly those of Oro women, reveal complex, gendered practices of care and survival which took place outside, or in entanglement with, colonial infrastructures. Attention to these practices highlights the contexts of relationality within which any consideration of health must be embedded It simultaneously decenters the military and colonial (and now, developmentalist) biomedical terms to which health continues to be so often reduced.

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