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Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry
| Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.122 |
| Collana | Pacific Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Capitalism - Pacific Area
Globalization - Pacific Area Neoliberalism - Pacific Area |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-921902-41-8
1-921902-42-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 modernity's 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 post colony; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3
Working for the mine The 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 Isaac: the righteous investor Christian 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 Investing (in)dividuals Conclusion; 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458717503321 |
| Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry
| Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.122 |
| Collana | Pacific Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Capitalism - Pacific Area
Globalization - Pacific Area Neoliberalism - Pacific Area |
| ISBN |
1-921902-41-8
1-921902-42-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 modernity's 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 post colony; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3
Working for the mine The 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 Isaac: the righteous investor Christian 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 Investing (in)dividuals Conclusion; 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791164703321 |
| Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry
| Managing modernity in the Western Pacific / / edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.122 |
| Collana | Pacific Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Capitalism - Pacific Area
Globalization - Pacific Area Neoliberalism - Pacific Area |
| ISBN |
1-921902-41-8
1-921902-42-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 modernity's 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 post colony; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3
Working for the mine The 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 Isaac: the righteous investor Christian 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 Investing (in)dividuals Conclusion; 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813896503321 |
| Queensland : , : UQ ePress, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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