In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification.
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification.
Keir Martin is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Aarhus and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institutea¿¿s Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.
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List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on Language General maps (Maps 1 and 2) Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of Environmental Disaster Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary Melanesian Possessive Individual Chapter 11. Conclusions Glossary References Index
List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on Language General maps (Maps 1 and 2) Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of Environmental Disaster Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary Melanesian Possessive Individual Chapter 11. Conclusions Glossary References Index
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