Deborah B. Gewertz, Frederick K. Errington

Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea

The Telling of Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1999 book examines the emergence and ramifications of class in an urban setting in Papua New Guinea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780521652124
• ISBN-10: 052165212X
• Artikelnr.: 35680508

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The middle class, the (new) Melanesian way: the Wewak Rotary Club
3. How the grass roots became the poor: the sleights of hand in the construction of desire
4. The realization of class exclusions: golf and the boundaries of solidarity
5. The hidden injuries of class: desiring the unattainable
6. The problem(s) of the poor: law, order and tinned mackerel and water buffalo
7. Class and the definition of reasonability: the case of the 'compo girl'
Conclusion: on dark nights of the soul
Notes
References
Index.