Changing Generational Values and New Masculinities Amongst Smallholder Export Cash Crop Producers in Papua New Guinea
| Autor: | George Curry, Gina Koczberski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Economic growth Labour economics 060101 anthropology business.industry Cash crop Relations of production 05 social sciences Social change 0507 social and economic geography Distribution (economics) 06 humanities and the arts Moral economy Indigenous Power (social and political) Anthropology Kinship 0601 history and archaeology Sociology business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 17:268-286 |
| ISSN: | 1740-9314 1444-2213 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14442213.2016.1178323 |
| Popis: | This article is concerned with changing generational values and aspirations and intergenerational conflicts among migrant farmers in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Drawing on fieldwork amongst oil palm smallholders, the paper begins by documenting how economic pressures and a conjunction of social changes are leading younger men to challenge indigenous relations of authority and obligation that underpin father-son relationships. Rising material aspirations and revised social and economic values structured by kinship are driving this challenge by young men and making it more difficult for fathers to draw on their sons’ ‘unpaid’ labour. We then describe how these challenges are enacted through demands on fathers for new relations of production that give sons more power and control over the management of the oil palm block and the distribution of the income. These demands by an aspiring generation of young men are often contested fiercely by fathers who see such demands as weakening their autho... |
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