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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 --- Big man (Melanesia) --- Reciprocity (Commerce) --- Social conflict --- Natural disasters --- New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) --- Social life and customs.
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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)
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Through this engaging ethnographic account of connections, conflicts and loss in Lihir, Hemers own fieldwork journey of making relationships, experiencing disputes and finally leaving the field, is mirrored. Structured into three parts, the book works through the complexities of creating and sustaining relationships, the evaluation of conduct as moral and the practices of conflict, and the experiences and transformations of death and grief.
Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Melanesia --- Lihir Islands (Papua New Guinea) --- Lihir (Papua New Guinean people) --- Social life and customs. --- Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea) --- Oceania --- Human beings --- Human ecology --- Emotions. --- Self. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Consciousness --- Mind and body --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on
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The last third of the 19th century witnessed a considerable increase in the active participation of women in the various Christian missions. Katharina Stornig focusses onthe Catholic case, and particularly explores the activities and experiences of German missionary nuns, the so-called Servants of the Holy Spirit,in colonial Togo and New Guinea in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Introducing the nuns' ambiguous roles as travelers, evangelists, believers, domestic workers, farmers, teachers, and nurses, Stornig highlights the ways in which these women shaped and were shaped b
Missions --- Nuns. --- History --- Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters --- History. --- Togoland --- New Guinea --- Church history. --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit --- Kenangan Seabad S. Sp. S. --- Siervas del Espíritu Santo --- Steyler Missionsschwestern --- Sluzonbnice Ducha Sväteho --- Missionaria delle Serve dello Spirito Santo --- Zgromadzenie Misvine Stuzebnic Ducha 'Swietego --- Dienaressen van de Heilige Geest --- Missionária das Servas do Espírito Santo --- Sheng ling feng shih pu chiao hsiu tao nü hui --- Sŏngnyŏng Sunyŏhoe --- Servants of the Holy Spirit --- Servae Spiritus Sancti --- Congregatio Servarum Spiritus Sancti --- S.Sp.S. --- SSpS --- Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration --- Malay Archipelago --- Melanesia --- Togo (German colony) --- Togoland (French) --- Togoland (British) --- Togo --- Dienerinnen des Heiligen Geistes --- Missionarissen van het Goddelijk Woord --- Missionarissen van Steyl
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