TY - GEN AU - R Hemer,Susan TI - Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir SN - lihir PY - 2013/// PB - University of Adelaide Press KW - melanesian KW - pigs KW - papua new guinea KW - kuelam village KW - loss KW - grief KW - personhood KW - pacific KW - lihir KW - moral conduct KW - christian missons KW - lihir islands KW - new ireland KW - melanesia KW - anthropology KW - yam KW - piot KW - mahur island KW - semantics of emotion KW - Catholic Church KW - Mahur KW - Maharashtra N1 - Open Access N2 - Through this engaging ethnographic account of connections, conflicts and loss in Lihir, Hemerâ s own fieldwork journey of making relationships, experiencing disputes and finally leaving the field, is mirrored. Structured into three parts, the book works through the complexities of creating and sustaining relationships, the evaluation of conduct as moral and the practices of conflict, and the experiences and transformations of death and grief. Throughout these parts various emotions are highlighted and interrogated for their relationship to psychological understandings and definitions: love, anger, jealousy, sadness. Emotions are also understood in a historical context and as connected to social changes wrought by interactions with global phenomena such as religion UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33152/1/560351.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33152/1/560351.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38221 ER -