Yabar The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity /

• Main Author: Lipset, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
• Subjects: Psychology.; Ethnology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Men's Studies.; Cultural Anthropology.

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...