Overview
- Develops an innovative theoretical framework that draws from anthropology, literary criticism and psychoanalysis and its central concept is not hegemony but alienation
- Focuses on how a group of men living in rural and urban Papua New Guinea find themselves estranged both from their own indigeneity as well as from the modernity that encompasses them
- Contributes to the emerging field of global masculinities
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Dialogics of Masculine Alienation
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In the Time and Space of the Other
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“This book combines ... rich ethnography of Murik men with innovative theory, deploying Bakhtin and Lacan. Anchored in decades of research ...it constructs a dialogue ... articulating men’s dual alienation from indigenous and postcolonial masculinities. Analyzing scintillating stories, ... quotidian conversations and theatrical performances, Lipset offers a compelling culmination to his distinctive corpus on Murik masculinities and modernities.” (Margaret Jolly, the Australian National University, Australia)
“[T]his remarkable book point[s] the way toward a vital new phase of ethnographic writing on the painfully liminal situations of many indigenous people in a runaway world.” (Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Yabar
Book Subtitle: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity
Authors: David Lipset
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51076-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84559-3Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51076-7Published: 27 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Men's Studies, Cultural Anthropology