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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

Ethnology --- Reciprocity (Commerce) --- Social conflict --- Natural disasters --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Réciprocité (Commerce) --- Conflits sociaux --- Catastrophes naturelles --- New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) --- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Big man (Melanesia) --- #SBIB:39A76 --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Fair trade (Tariff) --- Reciprocity --- Commercial policy --- Commercial treaties --- Favored nation clause --- Tariff --- Big men (Melanesia) --- Big woman (Melanesia) --- Big women (Melanesia) --- Bigmanship --- Bikfela man --- Political anthropology --- Political customs and rites --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea) --- Réciprocité (Commerce) --- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)