The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism
University of Hawaii Press ; Department of Anthropology ; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Social and Political Sciences, 2020
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In Papua New Guinea (PNG), news media frequently report on events in which groups exchange gifts as compensation for alleged harms. In news narratives of this type, compensation is a metaphor for the contact between liberal and relational social orders. In this way, news media in PNG produces knowledge of what it means to be a citizen in a society defined by vast and profound diversity. Different versions of the basic formula for a compensation story each offer different models for how liberal and relational orders should interact, one stressing the logic of reciprocal debt and interdependence, and the other emphasizing the gift as a dematerialized symbol of commitment to civil order. Yet each variant implicates the other, and hence the status of the indigenous subject as a citizen of a postcolonial nation remains fundamentally ambiguous. Stories of a new type of compensation in national newspapers reveal that PNG and society and its media continue to work through the dilemmas of ethnographic citizenship in ever newer ways.
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The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Schram, Ryan |
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Veröffentlichung: | University of Hawaii Press ; Department of Anthropology ; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Social and Political Sciences, 2020 |
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