Abstract
‘Do you want us to feed you like a baby?’ Ascriptions of dependence in East New Britain
Highlights
In this paper, I explore some accusations of wrongdoing and corruption in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the early 2000s
As I have argued elsewhere (Martin 2018a), the hopes that many people have pinned on land tenure reform in Papua New Guinea is primarily a hope that they can use it as a technology to create a new, less dependent type of Papua New Guinean person
ToParam to an extent fully buys into the premises of this discussion, namely that changing the legal nature of the relations of obligation that are mediated through land changes the nature of the persons who are related, but he sounds a note of caution about whether that individualism is sustainable and so the tenure system needs to encourage a mixture of scope for individualism with a degree of continuation of ongoing customary obligation
Summary
‘ D O YO U WA N T U S TO F E E D YO ULIKEABABY ? ’ 7 1 5 relationship between (il)legitimate dependence and corruption can be seen as a central means by which persons engaged in highly entangled interdependent relations attempt to re‐shape the nature of those entanglements – not just in the contemporary South Pacific, but as part of a globally observable tension over the appropriate degrees and kinds of dependencies that should be encouraged or discouraged in order to create a good society ‘ D O YO U WA N T U S TO F E E D YO ULIKEABABY ? ’ 7 1 5 relationship between (il)legitimate dependence and corruption can be seen as a central means by which persons engaged in highly entangled interdependent relations attempt to re‐shape the nature of those entanglements – not just in the contemporary South Pacific, but as part of a globally observable tension over the appropriate degrees and kinds of dependencies that should be encouraged or discouraged in order to create a good society
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