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 ur...

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Main Author:	Rasmussen, Anders Emil (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for oceanists ; 5
Subjects:	Ethnology > Papua New Guinea. Community life > Papua New Guinea. Kinship > Papua New Guinea. Social values > Papua New Guinea. Identity (Psychology) > Papua New Guinea. Individuality > Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea > Ethnic relations. Papua New Guinea > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Papua New Guinea > Economic conditions. Electronic books.
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