How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to
the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered
their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a
corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively
neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people
have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own
mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside
corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary
practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past
as a means of confronting the future.