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Hard Times on Kairiru Island : Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village / Michael French Smith.
De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook Package Archive pre 2000 Available online
De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook Package Archive pre 2000- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Michael French, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book follows the difficult lives of people living in the village of Kragur in Papua New Guinea. They have been in poverty since European contact and now must find a way to become prosperous.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- ONE Introduction: Hard Times, Goodness, and Visions of the Future
- TWO The Setting: History and Geography, Kinship and Leadership, Food and Money
- THREE Social Relations and Material Well-Being
- FOUR The Supernatural: Old and New
- FIVE The Case of the Konan
- SIX Understanding Poverty: The Mundane, the Extraordinary, and the Moral Preoccupation
- SEVEN Redefining Good Social Relations: Reciprocity vs the Commercial Spirit
- EIGHT Redefining Good Social Relations: Organizing Time and Work
- NINE The Future, Hard Times, and Visions of Goodness
- Appendix: Time-Allocation Data
- Notes
- Glossary
- References Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-4326-6
- OCLC:
- 1253314009
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