ISBN:
9780857458735
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
Series Statement:
ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 3
DDC:
390
Keywords:
Sozialer Konflikt
;
Soziale Situation
;
Ethnologie
;
Eruption
;
Häuptling
Abstract:
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.
DOI:
10.1515/9780857458735
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458735
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857458735
