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"By adopting ideas like 'development,' members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives 'What about me?' This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like 'community' can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship. As the state withdraws, Mbuke people explore what social ends might be reached through involvement with the cash economy"--Provided by publisher.

Ethnology --- Community life --- Kinship --- Social values --- Identity (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Papua New Guinea --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic relations. --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Economic conditions. --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Likes and dislikes --- Personality --- Self --- Personal identity --- Ego (Psychology) --- Values --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua-Neuguinea --- Papua Niu Gini --- Papua Niugini --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papua Nugini --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- admiralty islands. --- bismarck archipelago. --- bureaucrats. --- businessmen. --- cash economy. --- community member. --- community. --- development. --- ethnography. --- family bonds. --- family. --- kinship. --- manus province. --- manus. --- mbuke islands. --- migrant relatives. --- motivation. --- papua new guinea. --- papua new guinean community. --- people of the mbuke islands. --- personhood. --- relative. --- remittance documents. --- remittance motivations. --- social connections. --- society. --- teachers. --- urban centers. --- value.