ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times : Ethnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in Anthropology SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462017
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious TimesDDC classification:
  • 306.3
LOC classification:
  • GN448 .Q47 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Good Death? Paying Equal Respects in Fijian Funerals -- 3. Changing Standards of Living: The Paradoxes of Building a Good Life in Rural Vanuatu -- 4. 'According to Kastom and According to Law': 'Good Life' and 'Good Death' in Gilbert Camp, Solomon Islands -- 5. 'This Custom from the Past Is No Good': Grassroots, 'Big Shots' and a Contested Moral Economy in East New Britain -- 6. A Moral Economy of the Transnational Papua New Guinean Household: Solidarity and Estrangement While 'Working Other Gardens' -- 7. Cycles of Integration and Fragmentation: Changing Yolngu-Balanda Sentiments of the 'Good Life' in Northern Australia -- 8. 'The Main Thing Is to Have Enough Food': Kuninjku Precarity and Neoliberal Reason -- 9. The Rise of the Poverty-Stricken Millionaire: The Quest for the Good Life in Sargipalpara.
Summary: At a time when understanding local implications of global processes is taking on new urgency, these essays bring finely honed anthropological perspectives to matters of universal human concern--they offer radical empirical critique based on intensive fieldwork that will be of great interest to those seeking to comprehend the bigger picture.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Good Death? Paying Equal Respects in Fijian Funerals -- 3. Changing Standards of Living: The Paradoxes of Building a Good Life in Rural Vanuatu -- 4. 'According to Kastom and According to Law': 'Good Life' and 'Good Death' in Gilbert Camp, Solomon Islands -- 5. 'This Custom from the Past Is No Good': Grassroots, 'Big Shots' and a Contested Moral Economy in East New Britain -- 6. A Moral Economy of the Transnational Papua New Guinean Household: Solidarity and Estrangement While 'Working Other Gardens' -- 7. Cycles of Integration and Fragmentation: Changing Yolngu-Balanda Sentiments of the 'Good Life' in Northern Australia -- 8. 'The Main Thing Is to Have Enough Food': Kuninjku Precarity and Neoliberal Reason -- 9. The Rise of the Poverty-Stricken Millionaire: The Quest for the Good Life in Sargipalpara.

At a time when understanding local implications of global processes is taking on new urgency, these essays bring finely honed anthropological perspectives to matters of universal human concern--they offer radical empirical critique based on intensive fieldwork that will be of great interest to those seeking to comprehend the bigger picture.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.