" M]ethodologically innovative, theoretically sophisticated,
ethnographically engaging, and beautifully written - what makes
this book especially noteworthy is the author's ability to bring
closely observed research data into productive dialogue with
general social scientific theories." Michael W. Scott, London
School of Economics
" A] fascinating manuscript. It is clearly and straightforwardly
written, adds new and important ethnographic material to the small
but growing contemporary literature of Island Melanesia, and is
relevant to current debates in a number of ways." James Leach,
University of Aberdeen
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater
people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the
movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in
their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions.
From their observations of human movements, they take their cues
about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed
ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological
theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode
of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its
inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger
island, and what material objects and images are to others
elsewhere in Melanesia.
Katharina Schneider is Lecturer at the Institute for Ethnology
at Heidelberg University. She obtained her PhD in Social
Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
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