1st Edition

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

By Eleanor Rimoldi, Max Rimoldi Copyright 1992
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

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