The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big ShotsIn 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered

The ambiguous nature of memories

cause irretrievable damage

and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings

Three more changes of corporate ownership followed until

from the early morning

This long-awaited book

Placing the country and people’s perspectives at the centre

James Hatley

This book sets out to examine these issues and how they affect

Egypt from the late nineteenth century through the Sadat period

performs as a modal particle

Men gaze upon