In the Absence of the Gift

In the Absence of the GiftBy adopting ideas like development, members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives What about me? This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like

process and procedures of Jungian Sandplay therapy

absolute pest densities and economic threshold values

salary range

particularly concerns over Strauss's relation to the extreme right in Germany

media/literary studies and feminism

placing focus on the various conceptions of law that are conveyed by the analysed material

makes a memorable debut in the first of six novels

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and explores their consequences

and two additional case studies help readers to better grasp CBT techniques