Courtney Handman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Infrastructures of Colonial Distance1. Remote Networks: Airplanes, Radios, and the Making of Communicative Distance in Lutheran New Guinea2. Tok Pisin and the Linguistic Infrastructure of the Lutheran Missions3. Telepathy Tales: Tok Pisin, Communist Radio, and Other Channels of Illegitimate CirculationPart Two. Bureaucracies of Decolonial Connection4. Demanding Independence on Behalf of Others: The Trusteeship Council and the Trust Territory of New Guinea5. English and the Channels of Decolonization6. Defying Predictions: Global Bureaucracy and the Art of Not Making Guesses about the Future of New GuineaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Courtney Handman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Infrastructures of Colonial Distance1. Remote Networks: Airplanes, Radios, and the Making of Communicative Distance in Lutheran New Guinea2. Tok Pisin and the Linguistic Infrastructure of the Lutheran Missions3. Telepathy Tales: Tok Pisin, Communist Radio, and Other Channels of Illegitimate CirculationPart Two. Bureaucracies of Decolonial Connection4. Demanding Independence on Behalf of Others: The Trusteeship Council and the Trust Territory of New Guinea5. English and the Channels of Decolonization6. Defying Predictions: Global Bureaucracy and the Art of Not Making Guesses about the Future of New GuineaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Courtney Handman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Infrastructures of Colonial Distance1. Remote Networks: Airplanes, Radios, and the Making of Communicative Distance in Lutheran New Guinea2. Tok Pisin and the Linguistic Infrastructure of the Lutheran Missions3. Telepathy Tales: Tok Pisin, Communist Radio, and Other Channels of Illegitimate CirculationPart Two. Bureaucracies of Decolonial Connection4. Demanding Independence on Behalf of Others: The Trusteeship Council and the Trust Territory of New Guinea5. English and the Channels of Decolonization6. Defying Predictions: Global Bureaucracy and the Art of Not Making Guesses about the Future of New GuineaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex