Yabar: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity

Develops an innovative theoretical framework that draws from anthropology, literary criticism and psychoanalysis and its central concept is not hegemony but alienationFocuses on how a group of men living in rural and urban Papua New Guinea find themselves estranged both from their own indigeneity as well as from the modernity that encompasses themContributes to the emerging field of global masculinities

David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. He has done long-term fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. His previous books include Gregory Bateson: Legacy of a Scientist and Mangrove Man: Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary.