| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; volume 3
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ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Land politics and postcolonial sociality in the wake of environmental disaster -- An orientation to the shifting patterns of Tolai land tenure -- Land at Sikut : Freedom from kastom and economic development -- Kulia : an ambiguous transaction -- What makes a landholder : a case study of a Matupit land dispute -- Kastom, family and clan : Extending and limiting obligations -- Kastom and contested reciprocity -- Big Shots, corned beef and big heads -- A fish trap for kastom -- Big Men, Big Shots and bourgeois individuals : Conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity -- Your own buai you must buy : The Big Shot as contemporary Melanesian possessive individual -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
"In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects."--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
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Ethnology. |
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Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island. |
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Big man (Melanesia) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
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Big man (Melanesia) |
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Reciprocity (Commerce) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
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Reciprocity (Commerce) |
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Social conflict -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
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Social conflict. |
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Natural disasters -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
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Natural disasters. |
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New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martin, Keir. Death of the Big men and the rise of the big shots. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013 9780857458728 (DLC) 2012025596 (OCoLC)805831424 |
| ISBN |
9780857458735 (electronic book) |
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0857458736 (electronic book) |
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9781299777699 (electronic book) |
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1299777694 (electronic book) |
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9780857458728 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0857458728 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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