Title Hard times on Kairiru Island : poverty, development, and morality in a Papua New Guinea village / Michael French Smith

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1994] ©1994

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Description viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents 1. Introduction: Hard Times, Goodness, and Visions of the Future -- 2. The Setting: History and Geography, Kinship and Leadership, Food and Money -- 3. Social Relations and Material Well-Being -- 4. The Supernatural: Old and New -- 5. The Case of the Konan -- 6. Understanding Poverty: The Mundane, the Extraordinary, and the Moral Preoccupation -- 7. Redefining Good Social Relations: Reciprocity vs the Commercial Spirit -- 8. Redefining Good Social Relations: Organizing Time and Work -- 9. The Future, Hard Times, and Visions of Goodness -- Appendix: Time-Allocation Data Analysis Economic development - Papua New Guinea - Kragur Kairiru (Papua New Guinea people) - Economic conditions Kairiru (Papua New Guinea people) - Social conditions Kragur (Papua New Guinea) - Economic conditions Kragur (Papua New Guinea) - Social conditions Subsistence economy - Papua New Guinea - Kragur Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index Subject Economic development. Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Economic conditions. Kairiru (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social conditions. Subsistence economy -- Papua New Guinea -- Kragur. SUBJECT Kragur (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93104192 -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005736 Kragur (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93104192 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 LC no. 93041300 ISBN 082481536X (cloth : acid-free paper) 0824815815 (paper : acid-free paper)

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