The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-872-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

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. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Keir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Martin, Keir
Keir Martin is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.

Keir Martin is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.