The unseen city : anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard.
Material type: TextPublisher: Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian Nasional University, 2005Distributor: Sydney, NSW. : Distributed by UNIREPS, University of New South Wales Description: 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1740761340
- 9781740761345
- Anthropological perspective on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- 307.76099545 22
- GN671.N5 G63 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 307.76099545 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A407351B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Ch. 1. From rolling thunder to reggae : imagining 'squatter' settlements -- Ch. 2. Off the record : village court praxis and the politics of settlement life -- Ch. 3. ... big-man, thief : the social organisation of gangs -- Ch. 4. The rascal road : crime, prestige and development -- Ch. 5. Expressions of interest : informal usury -- Ch. 6. Reto's chance : state and status in a settlement -- Ch. 7. The age of steam : constructed identity and recalcitrant youth.
"This book is based on the fieldwork of an anthropologist among people in Port Moresby's much-maligned migrant 'settlements' and in a 200-year-old village at the city's edge. It addresses the contemporary situation of these urban peoples, displacing popular generalizations with more detailed accounts which do justice to their vitality, resilience, and creative responses to the challenges of living in a burgeoning Melanesian city."--BOOK JACKET.
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