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In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Hardcover
Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oc, Book 5
Australia & OceaniaAnthropologyGeneral Sociology
ISBN13: 9781782387817
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
By adopting ideas like development, members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives What about me? This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like community can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship. As the state withdraws, Mbuke people explore what social ends might be reached through involvement with the cash economy.
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