Yabar

This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young mens elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone usein which generational tensions play out together with their disaffection from the state. He also borrows from Lacanian psychoanalysis in discussing how mens dialogue of dual alienation appears in folk theater, in material substitutionsmost notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boatsas well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.