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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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Psychotherapy, anthropology and the work of culture
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ISBN: 9780367182519 Year: 2019 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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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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Flexible Capitalism
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ISBN: 9781782386155 1782386157 1789200733 1782386165 9781782386162 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Approaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism's social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, "gift-like" socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

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