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The death of the big men and the rise of the big shots
2013
Overview
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
Berghahn Books,Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject
/ Big man (Melanesia) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
/ Cultural
/ Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
/ GTF
/ JHMC
/ Natural disasters -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
/ New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)
/ New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
/ Reciprocity (Commerce) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
ISBN
0857458728, 9780857458728, 0857458736, 9780857458735
