ISBN:
9783319510767
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (261 pages)
Serie:
Culture, Mind, and Society
Serie:
Culture, Mind, and Society Ser
Paralleltitel:
Print version Lipset, David Yabar : The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity
DDC:
150
Schlagwort(e):
Ethnology
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Ethnology
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Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Dedication -- Series Editor Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Masculinity, Modernity, Papua New Guinea -- Masculinities -- Modernities -- Alienation -- Dialogism -- Masculine Alienation in Papua New Guinea -- Masculine Alienation Among the Murik -- The Chapters -- Notes -- Part I: Dialogics of Masculine Alienation -- Chapter 2: Desire in Young Men's Courtship Stories -- Love and Modernity? -- Two Chronotopes of Love -- Marriage in Murik Society -- Desire in the Chronotope of Homeric Courtship -- "I Met Her Myself" -- "She Had Nothing" -- "I Didn't Know the Girl" -- Modernity Without Romance -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Marijuana, Youth and Society -- Tobacco, Good and Bad -- Traffic -- Consumption Discourse -- Consumption Discourse in a Case of Domestic Violence -- Marijuana and the Postcolonial State -- Conclusion: Marijuana, Modernity and Alienation -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Mobile Telephony in a Peri-urban Setting -- Mobile Telephones in Modern PNG -- Alienation in a Peri-urban Modernity -- Remind Him of the Almonds! -- Mobile Phones and Masculine Alienation -- "What's Up?": Mobile Phones and the Modern Subject -- Conclusion: Mobile Telephones as Modernity in PNG -- Notes -- Part II: In the Time and Space of the Other -- Chapter 5: Folk Theater and the Signifier -- A Murik Pygmalion -- The Lacanian Signifier -- Pygmalion's Statue, the Murik Steersman and the Lacanian Signifier -- The Murik Phallus, A Brief History -- Illusions in a Lacanian Mirror -- Who was the author of Woyon's Mother? -- A Theater of Alienation -- Pygmalion's Desire in the Postcolonial Moment -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Money and Other Signifiers -- Mobility and Moral Order -- The Postcolonial Gaingiin Society -- "The Snake Caught Me!" -- A Coconut Taboo -- The Metaphor of Money -- Yabar and Other Signifiers of Murik Modernity -- Notes.
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