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Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
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ISBN: 0521480302 0521483328 Year: 1995 Volume: 96 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Materializing the nation
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ISBN: 0253215498 0253013615 9780253013613 0253341477 9780253341471 9780253215499 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind.

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""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""-Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also thr


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Geology
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Year: 1966 Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: Merrill,

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Nation Making : emergent identities in Postcolonial Melanesia
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ISBN: 0472084275 9780472084272 Year: 1997 Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press,

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The moral economy of mobile phones : Pacific Islands perspectives
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ISBN: 1760462098 176046208X Year: 2018 Publisher: ANU Press

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The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday use of mobile phones and market activity around mobile phones. Ambivalence and disagreement about who owes what to whom is thus an integral feature of the moral economy of mobile phones. This volume identifies and evaluates the stakes at play in the moral economy of mobile phones. The six main chapters consider ethnographic cases from Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu. The volume also includes a brief introduction with background information on the recent 'digital revolution' in these countries and two closing commentaries that reflect on the significance of the chapters for our understanding of global capitalism and the contemporary Pacific.

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