Yabar - The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)


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 theater, in material substitutions-most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats-as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.

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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 theater, in material substitutions-most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats-as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Springer International Publishing AG

Country of origin

Switzerland

Series

Culture, Mind, and Society

Release date

August 2018

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2017

Authors

Dimensions

210 x 148 x 14mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

253

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

ISBN-13

978-3-319-84559-3

Barcode

9783319845593

Categories

LSN

3-319-84559-4



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