Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific.

Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven-all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of ec...

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Main Author: Patterson, Mary
Other Authors: Macintyre, Martha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Queensland Press, 2014.
Series:Pacific studies series.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Managing the Pacific; Development and its dilemmas; Being personally modern?; Land matters; Rationally religious?; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 1; Occultism in cultural modernity; The intellectualisation of magic and religion; Rational illusions of secular modernity; Pandaemonium: mythic modernities and human religion; Millennial capitalism: occult economies and magical states; Conclusion: modernity as a demon-haunted universe; Notes; Chapter 2; The (not so) Pacific?; Economies of scale?; Desire in the postcolony; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3. 
505 8 |a Working for the mineThe double shift; Working women and community attitudes; Career women working in towns; Self-interest and modern selves; Bride price; Managing money; Notes; Chapter 4; Welcoming the church; Bringing down the company; Mismanaging modernity; Notes; Chapter 5; Living a biblical life; The true me; The politics of christian subjectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6; The fast money rush; Greed and gullibility? cargo or investment?; Productive investment?; Nationalism and consumption; A nation of shareholders; Balthasar and Rebecca: banks and the critique of the nation. 
505 8 |a Isaac: the righteous investorChristian citizens of a corrupt and immoral nation; Consumer citizens, corporate citizenship and national development; The moral critique of the possessive individual; Patrons, clients and neoliberalism; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7; Neoliberalism and the age of chance; Gambling, governance and the cook Islands economy; Home and housie; Women, work and gambling; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8; Islands of winmoni; New standards for reasonable accomplishment; PV in the Lihir islands; Lessons in self-mastery; Personal Viability anthem; Self-discipline. 
505 8 |a Investing (in)dividualsConclusion; Notes; Chapter 9; Relocating trusts in a Pacific tax haven; The aesthetics of trust management and fictive kinship in the mobility of money; Background: tax havens and offshore capitalisms; Trusts, fiduciaries and the separation of persons and property; Privileged papers, Swiss bank accounts and hawai'ian credit cards; Fiduciaries, bilateral flows and family relations; Methods for 'ethnographic elicitations'; Letting go; Conclusion; Notes; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Index; Copyright. 
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