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The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity
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Artikel-Nr:
9783319845593
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.08.2018
Seiten:
272
Autor:
David Lipset
Gewicht:
356 g
Format:
210x148x15 mm
Serie:
Culture, Mind, and Society
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. He has done long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Gregory Bateson: Legacy of a Scientist and Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary.
This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young men's elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone use-in which generational tensions play out together with their disaffection from the state. He also borrows from Lacanian psychoanalysis in discussing how men's dialogue of dual alienation appears in folk theater, in material substitutions-most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats-as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.
Develops an innovative theoretical framework that draws from anthropology, literary criticism and psychoanalysis and its central concept is not hegemony but alienation
1. Introduction: Modernity, Masculinity, Papua New Guinea.- 2. Desire in Young Men's Courtship Stories.- 3. Marijuana, Youth, and Society.- 4. Mobile Telephony in a Peri-urban Setting.- 5. Folk Theater and the Signifier.- 6. Money and other Signifiers.- 7. In the Anthropocene.- Afterword: Dual Alienation in other Pacific Modernities.