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

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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 ce...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rasmussen, Anders Emil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Colección:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 5
Temas:
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.
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.
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