ISBN:
978-1-76046-200-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 223 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Monographs in Anthropology Series
Keywords:
Indien Australien
;
Ozeanien
;
Ethnosoziologie
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Wirtschaft
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Moral
;
Wertvorstellung
;
Armut
;
Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Chris Gregory -- The Good Death? Paying Equal Respects in Fijian Funerals / Matti Era¨saari -- Changing Standards of Living: The Paradoxes of Building a Good Life in Rural Vanuatu / Rachel E. Smith -- 'According to Kastom and According to Law': 'Good Life' and 'Good Death' in Gilbert Camp, Solomon Islands / Rodolfo Maggio -- 'This Custom from the Past Is No Good': Grassroots, 'Big Shots' and a Contested Moral Economy in East New Britain / Keir Martin -- A Moral Economy of the Transnational Papua New Guinean Household: Solidarity and Estrangement While 'Working Other Gardens' / Karen Sykes -- Cycles of Integration and Fragmentation: Changing Yolngu-Balanda Sentiments of the 'Good Life' in Northern Australia / Fiona Magowan -- 'The Main Thing Is to Have Enough Food': Kuninjku Precarity and Neoliberal Reason / Jon Altman -- The Rise of the Poverty-Stricken Millionaire: The Quest for the Good Life in Sargipalpara / Chris Gregory.
Note:
"The chapters in this collection were among papers presented at a conference held at the University of Manchester, 24-26 March 2015, entitled 'The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times: Grassroots Perspectives on the Value Question in the 21st Century'. The conference marked the end of a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)- funded project entitled 'Domestic Moral Economy: An Ethnographic Study of Value in the Asia-Pacific Region' ..."
