Tracing the Melanesian person : emotions and relationships in Lihir /

"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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Author / Contributor: Hemer, Susan R. (Author)
Imprint: Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, The University of Adelaide, [2013]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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245 1 0 |a Tracing the Melanesian person :  |b emotions and relationships in Lihir /  |c by Susan R Hemer, Discipline of Anthropology and Development Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Adelaide. 
264 1 |a Adelaide, South Australia :  |b University of Adelaide Press, The University of Adelaide,  |c [2013] 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311). 
505 0 |a 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. 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Adelaide Press website; viewed on 2020-04-03). 
520 |a "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 Christian missions, government administration and the development of a large gold mine (Lihir Gold Ltd). Being Lihirian in the context of these changes is challenging, yet Lihirians retain a strong sense of themselves and their islands as distinctive. This book aims to reconcile what has been termed the 'root metaphor' of Melanesian sociality as based on relational or composite personhood with the strong individualist tendencies and sense of self that are found in everyday practice in Lihir. In looking beyond the ideals of moral conduct to the practice of relations and emotion, it can be seen that the symbolism of Melanesian sociality does not encompass the practical reality of what it means to be Lihirian. Emotion is a ubiquitous part of life in Lihir. Emotions are motivations, reactions and remarks on the state of self and other; in short, emotions are integral to relations and persons in Lihir. This book considers emotions both through their performative contexts as well as the more usual lexical analyses of emotion terms and commentaries. In moving beyond lexical analyses, Hemer argues that the strong focus on the semantics of emotion in anthropology has been at the expense of the embodied practice of emotion that was apparent in Lihir."--Publisher 
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