In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists, Band 5)

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Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing. An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context. Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often subject to externally initiated (sometimes imposed) development. One of the few monograph length publications in recent years taking on the notion of value and the book provides an ethnographically driven understanding of value.

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