Tracing the Melanesian person : emotions and relationships in Lihir /

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"This book explores what it means to be Lihirian through an analysis of everyday life in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea. Atop four volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean east of New Ireland, Lihirians are living in a world that has rapidly changed in the last century through the work of Chr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hemer, Susan R. (Author)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, The University of Adelaide, [2013]
Subjects:
Self > Papua New Guinea > Lihir Islands.
Emotions.
Interpersonal relations > Papua New Guinea > Lihir Islands.
Social interaction > Papua New Guinea > Lihir Islands.
Moi (Psychologie) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Lihir, Îles.
Interaction sociale > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Lihir, Îles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Social interaction.
Interpersonal relations.
Human ecology.
Identity (Psychology)
Manners and customs.
Self.
Gesellschaft
Brauch
Ethnische Identität
Melanesia.
Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea > Lihir Islands.
Lihir Islands
Academic Dissertation
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Yumi lus pinis
  • Part I. Connections and relations
  • Navigating the seas of relationship
  • Nurturing children, visitors, pigs and yams : household relationships
  • Piot, personhood and place
  • Maps and figures
  • Part II. Moral conduct and conflict
  • Christianity and the moral universe
  • Conflicts of moral conduct and the individual
  • Perceiving inequality : social relations, mining and conflict
  • Part III. Loss and its transformations
  • Dying, grieving and forgetting
  • Relations at stake : performing and transforming personhood, emotions and relations
  • Afterword : Being Lihirian and tracing the Melanesian person.

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