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Saltwater sociality : a Melanesian Island ethnography
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ISBN: 128049672X 9786613591951 0857453025 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Abstract

The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what

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