TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory,Chris
AU  - Altman,Jon
TI  - The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy
T2  - Monographs in Anthropology Series
SN  - 9781760462017
AV  - GN448 .Q47 2018 
U1  - 306.3 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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