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The unseen city : anthropological perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard.

By:

Goddard, Michael (Michael Bruce) [author.]

Material type: Text

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

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1740761340
9781740761345

Other title:

Anthropological perspective on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76099545 22

LOC classification:

GN671.N5 G63 2005

Contents:

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.

Review: "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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"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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