{"id":21931,"date":"2020-08-22T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/the-return-of-shell-money-png-revives-old-ways-after-covids-blow-to-economy"},"modified":"2020-08-22T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:00:07","slug":"the-return-of-shell-money-png-revives-old-ways-after-covids-blow-to-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21931","title":{"rendered":"The return of shell money: PNG revives old ways after Covid&#8217;s blow to economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018New normal\u2019 under Covid-19 restrictions has seen a resurgence in traditional farming practices, bartering and the use of tabu<\/p>\n<p>For many in Papua New Guinea, Covid-19\u2019s \u201cNiupela Pasin\u201d \u2013 new normal \u2013 is a return to the old ways.<\/p>\n<p>As the country wrestles with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/papua-new-guineas-massive-ok-tedi-mine-closes-as-covid-cases-spread-to-new-areas\">nascent but potentially crippling new outbreak<\/a> of coronavirus infections, emanating out from the crowded capital, Port Moresby, to the highlands and the river valleys of the sprawling archipelago, many in PNG\u2019s villages are returning to traditional economies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/22\/the-return-of-shell-money-png-revives-old-ways-after-covids-blow-to-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018New normal\u2019 under Covid-19 restrictions has seen a resurgence in traditional farming practices, bartering and the use of tabuFor many in Papua New Guinea, Covid-19\u2019s \u201cNiupela Pasin\u201d \u2013 new normal \u2013 is a return to the old ways.As the country wrestles wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21931\/revisions\/21932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}