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The central focus of this dissertation is the conceptual construction
and valorization of the collective social identity of the Hubula, the indigenous
people living in the Palim valley of Papua (also known as the
Dani). It explores how this identity is expressed in ritual actions, and
in the production and exchange of cultural artifacts, and looks at the
way in which the Indonesian State and the Roman Catholic Church
have impacted upon and transformed it. The ethnographic data presented
documents the resilience of the Hubula in their encounter with
modern institutions, including the impact of an encroaching market
economy on the local forms of livelihood and resources, and pressure
to more fully integrate into the Indonesian state which involves
the subordination of the Hubula's own forms authority and leadership
to the political institutions of the Indonesian State. The dissertation
points out the importance of including the ontological basis of Hubula
social structure in the cultures of intervention and cultural policies in
order to come to a dignified social change.