Hard Times on Kairiru Island : : Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village / / Michael French Smith.
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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of 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