David Lipset

Yabar

The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity

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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 the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-51076-7
EAN: 9783319510767
Produktnummer: 22771987
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 253 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'183 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: 30 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

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.