Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
The Telling of Difference
- Authors:
- Deborah B. Gewertz, Amherst College, Massachusetts
- Frederick K. Errington, Trinity College, Connecticut
- Date Published: October 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521652124
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This accessible 1999 study of social class in contemporary Papua New Guinea deals with the new elite, its culture and its institutions, and its relationship to the broader society. The Papua New Guinea described here is not a place of exotic tribesmen, but a modernising society, shaped by global forces, and increasingly divided on class lines. The authors describes the life-style of the elite Wewak, a typical commercial centre, their golf clubs and Rotary gatherings, and bring home the ways in which differences of status are created, experienced and justified. In a country with a long tradition of egalitarianism, it has become at once possible and plausible for relatively affluent 'nationals' to present themselves in a wide range of contexts as fundamentally superior to 'bushy' people, to blame the poor for their misfortunes, and to turn their backs on their less successful relatives.
Read more- Written as a textbook, it looks at the subtle and complex workings of world systems and shows how they impinge on real people's lives
- A follow on to the authors' two other successful books on Papua New Guinea, written at the same level, and both widely adopted in course teaching
- Brings home the reality of class - the way that differences in worth are created, experienced, and justified
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- Date Published: October 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521652124
- length: 190 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 158 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.425kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The middle class, the (new) Melanesian way: the Wewak Rotary Club
3. How the grass roots became the poor: the sleights of hand in the construction of desire
4. The realization of class exclusions: golf and the boundaries of solidarity
5. The hidden injuries of class: desiring the unattainable
6. The problem(s) of the poor: law, order and tinned mackerel and water buffalo
7. Class and the definition of reasonability: the case of the 'compo girl'
Conclusion: on dark nights of the soul
Notes
References
Index.
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