In 2019, we returned to Karavar, one of Papua New Guinea's Duke of York Islands. Since our last visit 28 years earlier, many with whom we worked had died. However, their children knew about us and were eager for our recollections about the lives and times of their parents. We, in turn, wished to learn about current lives and times. Our conversations, thus, often focused on multi‐generational changes. Significantly, most Karavarans thought that these changes had been for the better. Indeed, they seemed relatively satisfied with their present circumstances. In contrast, the Karavarans we had earlier known were frequently fired up with grievance, disappointment, possibility, and occasional exultation. Here we consider how contentiousness turned into contentment; how, what Karavarans had been, approached what they wanted to be. In understanding this historical process, we consider several ramifying ‘events’: happenings that Karavarans recognized, whether immediately or in retrospect, as interrupting business as usual and, ultimately, as challenging assumptions about the workings of their world.

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从有争议的到有争议的：对卡拉瓦兰历史的“事件”描述

在2019年，我们返回了巴布亚新几内亚约克公爵岛之一的卡拉瓦尔。自28年前的上一次访问以来，与我们一起工作的许多人已经死亡。但是，他们的孩子了解我们，并渴望我们回想起父母的生活和时代。反过来，我们希望了解当前的生活和时代。因此，我们的对话通常集中在多代变革上。值得注意的是，大多数卡拉瓦兰人认为这些变化变得更好。的确，他们似乎对目前的状况相对满意。相比之下，我们早先所知的卡拉瓦兰人经常因不满，失望，可能性和偶尔的狂喜而被解雇。在这里，我们考虑争执如何变成满足感；卡拉瓦兰（Karavarans）过去是怎样去实现他们想要的。