Keir Martin

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots (eBook, ePUB)

Custom and Conflict in East New Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857458735
• Artikelnr.: 39598503

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Language
General maps (Maps 1 and 2)
Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of
Environmental Disaster
Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure
Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development
Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction
Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute
Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations
Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity
Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads
Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom
Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over
moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity
Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary
Melanesian Possessive Individual
Chapter 11. Conclusions
Glossary
References
Index