Dedication

pp v-v

Contents

pp vi-vi

List of maps and figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-xii

Prologue: Yumi lus pinis

pp 1-20

Part I - Connections and relations

pp 21-22

1 - Navigating the seas of relationship

pp 23-56

2 - Nurturing children, visitors, pigs and yams: household relationships

pp 57-82

3 - Piot, personhood and place

pp 83-118

Maps and figures

pp 119-144

Part II - Moral conduct and conflict

pp 145-146

4 - Christianity and the moral universe

pp 147-174

5 - Conflicts of moral conduct and the individual

pp 175-200

6 - Perceiving inequality: Social relations, mining and conflict

pp 201-228

Part III - Loss and its transformations

pp 229-230

7 - Dying, grieving and forgetting

pp 231-260

8 - Relations at stake: performing znd transforming personhood, emotions and relations

pp 261-286

Afterword: Being Lihirian and tracing the Melanesian person

pp 287-290

Bibliography

pp 291-311