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Berghahn Books In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community: 5 (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists)

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". . . a very convincing case for the refiguring of our understanding of contemporary remittance motivations. Crucial to this is the focus on sharing, as opposed to formal transaction . . . Also original and exciting is the emphasis on the deployment of 'community' as a crucial indigenous category of description and organization . . . I have not read a better or more convincing account of the category in Melanesia." · Adam Reed, University of St. Andrews "[This book] significantly advances arguments in the discipline in a number of key areas, such as the relationship between community and individualism, the role of money, and the nature of obligation in exchange. It marks a significant contribution to our ethnographic understanding of the relationship between gifts and community building." · Keir Martin, University of Manchester 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. Anders Emil Rasmussen is curator and researcher at the Vejle Museums (Denmark). His publications include Materialities of Passing (co-ed., Ashgate, in preparation).

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Brand: Berghahn Books
Format: library
ASIN: 1782387811
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 September 2015
Listed Since: 08 September 2014

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