Hahalis and the Labour of Love: A Social Movement on Buka Island

by Max Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi

Overview

This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly sixty years, this book will be of particular interest to Melanesian specialists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367716899
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2021
Series:	Explorations in Anthropology
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Max Rimoldi Senior Lecturer in Anthropology,University of Auckland and Eleanor Rimoldi, Anthropologist, Researcher and Writer

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction - Social Movements - The Political Focus of Communities of Production - Baton for Baton: Retribution and New Stances - Power and the Person: The Negotiation of Nitsunono - Custom and Law: A Quick Blow - Coming Outside and Politics Within - Judgement for Judgement: Baru Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

A frustrating lacuna in the literature of social movements in Melanesia has finally been filled, and with undeniable authority.” —Research in Melanesia

From the Publisher

A frustrating lacuna in the literature of social movements in Melanesia has finally been filled, and with undeniable authority.

Research in Melanesia