Western ideologies of imperialism conceptualise time as heterogeneous in that they assume that colonised lands are outside of historical time. In this respect, the discursive construction of an empty frontier has been crucial to colonial dispossession. Yet colonial discourses become dominant through their circulation, and so the savage spaces they imagine take on a life of their own when they are revoiced. Papuan Times, a newspaper published by graduates of an industrial mission school at Kwato Island in the colonial Territory of Papua and New Guinea after the Second World War, produces subaltern agency in its reports on the pacification of the Highlands. While its news articles reproduce the heterogeneous chronotope of colonial discourse, articles describing the missionary work of former Kwato students in the Highlands reimagine the Highlands frontier as a horizon of social transformation. The Papuan Times strategy reflects the fact that a community's pursuit of the good exists in relation to others which constrain it, and, more generally, that an anthropology of the good is also an anthropology which recognises the fraught coexistence of a plurality of values.

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隔壁部落：战后巴布亚宣教报上的新几内亚高地

西方帝国主义意识形态将时间概念化为异类，因为他们认为殖民地不在历史时间之内。在这方面，空虚边界的话语结构对殖民地的剥夺至关重要。然而，殖民话语通过其流通变得占主导地位，因此，他们想象中的野蛮空间在被清算时就占据了自己的生命。巴布亚时报第二次世界大战后，由巴布亚和新几内亚殖民地瓜多岛夸托岛一所工业宣教学校的毕业生发行的报纸，在平定高地的报道中产生了替代机构。虽然其新闻文章再现了殖民话语的异质年代，但描述前夸托学生在高地的传教工作的文章却重新构想了高地边界，将其视为社会转型的视界。《巴布亚时报》的策略反映了这样一个事实，即社区对他人的追求与约束他人有关，并且更普遍的说，商品人类学也是承认多种价值观念并存的人类学。