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The death of the Big men and the rise of the big shots : custom and conflict in East New Britain
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ISBN: 0857458736 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 3 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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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


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The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
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ISBN: 9780857458728 9780857458735 0857458736 9781299777699 1299777694 0857458728 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Oxford


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Tracing the Melanesian person
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ISBN: 1922064440 9781922064448 1922064459 9781922064455 Year: 2013 Publisher: Adelaide The University of Adelaide Press

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Through this engaging ethnographic account of connections, conflicts and loss in Lihir, Hemer’s 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.


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Sisters crossing boundaries : German missionary nuns in Colonial Togo and New Guinea, 1897-1960
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ISBN: 3666101291 364710129X Year: 2013 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

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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

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