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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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Ceremonial objects --- Idols and images --- Iniet (Cult) --- Tolai (Melanesian people) --- Religion. --- Iniet (Cult). --- Kuanua (Melanesian people) --- Ethnology --- Melanesians --- Cults --- Iconography --- Images and idols --- Religious images --- Statuettes --- Animism --- Art, Primitive --- Art and religion --- Fetishism --- Magic --- Religion --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Symbolism --- Gods in art --- Ceremonial paraphernalia --- Objects, Ceremonial --- Rites and ceremonies --- Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea) --- Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea) --- Religious life and customs. --- Iconography, Religious --- Religious iconography --- Religious statuettes --- Statuettes, Religious --- Religious art

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In many parts of the world the "white man" is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of "whiteness" in specific ethnographic contexts. This study examines cultural perceptions of other and self as expressed in cargo cults and masked dances in Papua New Guinea. Indigenous terms, images, and concepts are being contrasted with their western counterparts, the latter partly deriving from the publications and field notes of Charles Valentine. After having d

Cargo cults --- Whites --- Culte du cargo --- Blancs --- Public opinion --- Opinion publique --- New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) --- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- White people --- Public opinion. --- Papuans --- Self-perception --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Self-concept --- Self image --- Self-understanding --- Perception --- Self-discrepancy theory --- Self-evaluation --- Melanesians --- Cargo movement --- Nativistic movements --- Psychology. --- Attitudes. --- Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)

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The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions. By investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs people's conduct, he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis.

Affect (Psychology) --- Emotions. --- Ethnopsychology --- Philosophy, Tolai. --- Tolai (Melanesian people) --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Tolai philosophy --- Kuanua (Melanesian people) --- Ethnology --- Melanesians --- Emotions --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Social life and customs. --- Psychology. --- Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea) --- Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea) --- affect theory. --- affect. --- ambition. --- anger. --- anthropology. --- blanche bay. --- ceremony. --- cultural studies. --- currency. --- death. --- egotism. --- emotion. --- envy. --- ethnography. --- folk belief. --- folk practices. --- folklore. --- gazelle peninsula. --- grief. --- indigenous culture. --- indigenous peoples. --- individual. --- kin. --- kinship. --- loss. --- love. --- mourning ceremonies. --- mourning. --- new britain. --- nonfiction. --- papua new guinea. --- personal interest. --- rabaul. --- rites. --- ritual. --- social networks. --- social science. --- tambu. --- tolai. --- tradition. --- work.