Managing modernity in the Western Pacific (Univ. of Queensland Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Capitalism, cosmology and globalisation in the Pacific / Mary Patterson and Martha Macintyre -- The imaginary excess of reason : critical reflections on magic and modernity in the context of post-millennial capitalism / Richard J. Sutcliffe -- Enchanted economies in the Pacific and beyond / Mary Patterson -- Money changes everything : Papua New Guinean women in the modern economy / Martha Macintyre -- Church, company, committee, chief : emergent collectivities in rural Solomon Islands / Debra McDougall -- The true me : individualism and biblical types in Fijian Methodism / Matt Tomlinson -- Prosperity, nation and consumption : fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea / John Cox -- Bingo and budgets : gambling with global capital in the Cook Islands / Kalissa Alexeyeff -- Are you viable? : personal avarice, collective antagonism and grassroots development in Melanesia / Nicholas A. Bainton -- Relative trust : the Vanuatu tax haven and the management of elite family fortunes / Gregory Rawlings