Yabar

Reviews / Votes

"This is a highly sympathetic account of how an anthropologist can find common kinship in unexpected places, in this case with men in Papua New Guinea facing predicaments that mirror the predicaments of simply being in the world. The view it offers on ... existence encountered as inherently multiple also makes it an unusual and insightful commentary on processes ordinarily understood as (societal) 'change'." (Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University, UK)

"This book combines ... rich ethnography of Murik men with innovative theory, deploying Bakhtin and Lacan. Anchored in decades of research ...it constructs a dialogue ... articulating men's dual alienation from indigenous and postcolonial masculinities. Analyzing scintillating stories, ... quotidian conversations and theatrical performances, Lipset offers a compelling culmination to his distinctive corpus on Murik masculinities and modernities." (Margaret Jolly, the Australian National University, Australia)

"[T]his remarkable book point[s] the way toward a vital new phase of ethnographic writing on the painfully liminal situations of many indigenous people in a runaway world." (Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, University of Pittsburgh, USA)