In the Absence of the Gift

<ul> <li> Rethinks remittance motivations among work migrants by focusing on notions of sharing.</li> <li> An elaborate focus on practices of sharing and demand sharing in a Melanesian context.</li> <li> Focuses on those ‘development projects’ people initiate and conduct themselves in a country otherwise often subject to externally initiated (sometimes imposed) development.</li> <li> One of the few monograph length publications in recent years taking on the notion of value and the book provides an ethnographically driven understanding of value.</li></ul>