In the Absence of the Gift : New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

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, whi...
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Autor*in:

Rasmussen, Anders Emil [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

New York Oxford: Berghahn Books ; 2015

©2015

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Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Community life, Papua New Guinea

Ethnology, Papua New Guinea

Identity (Psychology), Papua New Guinea

Individuality, Papua New Guinea

Kinship, Papua New Guinea

Social values, Papua New Guinea

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries

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Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (210 p.)

Reihe:

Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 5

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ISBN:

978-1-78238-782-4

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9781782387824

Katalog-ID:

1822462754

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