In the absence of the gift : : new forms of value and personhood in a Papua New Guinea community / / by Anders Emil Rasmussen.

"By adopting ideas like 'development,' members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in ur...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for oceanists ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages) :; map.
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Participants: Rasmussen, Anders Emil, [ VerfasserIn, VerfasserIn ]
Published: [2015]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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