Hard Times on Kairiru Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824815813)

Life in Kragur, a village in Papua New Guinea's Sepik area, has been profoundly affected by capitalism. Since European contact the people of this remote corner of the the Pacific have come to fear that their poverty is the result of their own moral failings. Hard Times on Kairiru Island evokes in vivid detail the difficulties of entering a cash economy for the first time, as well as the personal conflicts and public debates stirred by Kragur people's pursuit of economic change and moral certainty.

Author: Michael French Smith
ISBN-10: 0824815815
ISBN-13: 9780824815813
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1994
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.74d