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Tracing the Melanesian person : emotions and relationships in Lihir / by Susan R. Hemer

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2013

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)

978-1-922064-44-8 ( : ebook)

978-1-922064-45-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 971382478     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GF852.P26

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LOC-SH: Emotions ; Self ; Identity (Psychology) ; Melanesia -- Social life and customs ; Lihir Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs ; Lihir (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs ; Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea

Human ecology ; Papua New Guinea ; Emotions ; Self ; Identity (Psychology) ; Melanesia ; Social life and customs ; Lihir Islands (Papua New Guinea) ; Social life and customs ; Lihir (Papua New Guinean people) ; Social life and customs

Through this engaging ethnographic account of connections, conflicts and loss in Lihir, Hemer’s own fieldwork journey of making relationships, experiencing disputes and finally leaving the field, is mirrored. Structured into three parts, the book works through the complexities of creating and sustaining relationships, the evaluation of conduct as moral and the practices of conflict, and the experiences and transformations of death and grief