The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain (Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Band 3)

Martin, Keir

ISBN 10: 0857458728 ISBN 13: 9780857458728

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Keir Martin is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Aarhus and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institutea¿¿s Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857458728
• ISBN 13: 9780857458728
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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