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Author
Adam Reed
Book Title
Papua New Guinea's Last Place
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
EAN
9781571815811
Format
Hardcover
Genre
Society & Culture
ISBN
9781571815811
ISBN-10
1571815813
Item Height
216mm
Item Length
8.5in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Language
English
Publication Name
Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Title
Papua New Guinea's Last Place
Subtitle
Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Subject
Social Sciences
Release Year
2003
Release Date
14/08/2003
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Item Width
5.5in
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1571815813
ISBN-13
9781571815811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2880005

Product Key Features

Author
Adam Reed
Publication Name
Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hv9916.5 .P677 2003
Reviews
"Readers should know that Reed's book, even as it pushes the New Melanesian Ethnography forward in important ways, will also be of great value to those with little interest in that paradigm...he writes poignantly of [the prisoner's] need to forget and of the way dreams, visits, and other intrusions of the outside world make forgetting an ultimately impossible project. The book is studded with songs, poems, and dream accounts that make this argument wholly convincing and give the book a human immediacy that does not always mark the work of New Melanesian Ethnographers... There are many further complexities to Reed's account--powerful arguments about the nature of time both inside and outside prison, for example, and an interesting discussion of prison conversions..." · Contemporary Pacific "...a great strength of this book is its description of ideas that resonate all over the country...Reed's writing is always lucid and often bold." · JRAI "The book corresponds well with recent studies that attempt to understand Papua New Guinea's varied social scene and the political and economic realities of this recently independent country, and should be read by anyone interested in postcolonial conditions in Melanesia." · Focaal, "Readers should know that Reed's book, even as it pushes the New Melanesian Ethnography forward in important ways, will also be of great value to those with little interest in that paradigm...he writes poignantly of [the prisoner's] need to forget and of the way dreams, visits, and other intrusions of the outside world make forgetting an ultimately impossible project. The book is studded with songs, poems, and dream accounts that make this argument wholly convincing and give the book a human immediacy that does not always mark the work of New Melanesian Ethnographers... There are many further complexities to Reed's account--powerful arguments about the nature of time both inside and outside prison, for example, and an interesting discussion of prison conversions..." Contemporary Pacific "...a great strength of this book is its description of ideas that resonate all over the country...Reed's writing is always lucid and often bold." JRAI "The book corresponds well with recent studies that attempt to understand Papua New Guinea's varied social scene and the political and economic realities of this recently independent country, and should be read by anyone interested in postcolonial conditions in Melanesia." Focaal
Table of Content
List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Prologue The last place Under constraint Forgetting Sneeze Chapter 1. Dark Place Out of sight Supervision 'Quasi-ethnography' Chapter 2. Bus Stop 'Jailbird' Cowboy Raskal Bus stop Chapter 3. Jeffrey's Flight Waiting Dreaming Emergency Chapter 4. Place of Men Men's house Body of men/family of women Resistance? Chapter 5. Place of God Conversion Haven Light Chapter 6. Following White Men New Loose bodies Friends Mixmates Critique Counter-critique Conclusion Homesickness Glossary Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Regional Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Penology
Lccn
2003-052213
Dewey Decimal
365/.99545
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science

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