Gillespie, Kirsty (2016) Book review of "Tracing the Melanesian Person: emotions and relationships in Lihir" by S.R. Hemer, Adelaide, SA, University of Adelaide Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-922064-44-8. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 17 (1). pp. 87-88.

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Abstract

[Extract] The Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea are not a new subject of anthropology, nor are anthropologists new to Lihir. The islands have been written about for over a century with an increasing number of studies undertaken, academic and otherwise, in the period leading up to the opening of the gold mine in the mid-1990s, and a number of studies thereafter examining the effects of mining on the lives of the people of Lihir. The islands have been richly described by a number of people; this ethnography by Susan Hemer, however, is a welcome addition to this literature for its insight into the lives of the people of Mahur Island, the northern-most island in the Lihir Island Group, and for its contribution to the literature on Melanesian personhood and the anthropology of emotion.

Item ID:	48320
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1740-9314
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2017 06:03
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9503 Heritage > 950306 Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage @ 100%
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