ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the complexities concerning the ways Karavarans and their neighbors got to be as they were, including the aspirations they had come to hold for the future. Many Karavarans became quickly aware of how much could be at stake in the making of citizens when some among them tried to assert and newly define themselves by standing apart from local social contexts. The 1991 Jubilee drama presented the total eclipse of ancestral savagery by George Brown's arrival as what might be called an "anchor event," one that convincingly defined the appropriate basis and nature of national life in contemporary Papua New Guinea. The imagery of the momboto transformed by the arrival of George Brown obviously reflected a view of history promulgated by the missionaries and framed in their language contrasting darkness with light. In the last set of events depicting the conversion of the savages, Brown purchased land for his mission station.
