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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Adelaide, South Australia :
University of Adelaide Press, The University of Adelaide,
[2013]
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| Language: | English |
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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.