Keir Martin is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Aarhus and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.

"A brilliant book - one of the best ethnographies to come out of PNG for decades, a classic exemplar of how a modern ethnography should be researched and written up. It breaks new ground." * Chris Gregory, Australian National University "[This book] is well written and readable [and] provides both a dense and nuanced ethnography that reveals important insights into - the radical cultural changes that follow from demographic change, land-conflicts and economic scarcity. The book manages to explore that development by continually engaging the writings of earlier anthropologists in the area, supported by rich empirical detail." * Knut Rio, University of Bergen

• List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on Language General maps (Maps 1 and 2) Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of Environmental Disaster Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary Melanesian Possessive Individual Chapter 11. Conclusions Glossary References Index

Keir Martin is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Aarhus and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.

"A brilliant book - one of the best ethnographies to come out of PNG for decades, a classic exemplar of how a modern ethnography should be researched and written up. It breaks new ground." * Chris Gregory, Australian National University "[This book] is well written and readable [and] provides both a dense and nuanced ethnography that reveals important insights into - the radical cultural changes that follow from demographic change, land-conflicts and economic scarcity. The book manages to explore that development by continually engaging the writings of earlier anthropologists in the area, supported by rich empirical detail." * Knut Rio, University of Bergen

• List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on Language General maps (Maps 1 and 2) Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of Environmental Disaster Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary Melanesian Possessive Individual Chapter 11. Conclusions Glossary References Index

Keir Martin is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is the author of a number of academic and media publications on Papua New Guinea and the global economy. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Aarhus and is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Sutasoma Award for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.

"A brilliant book - one of the best ethnographies to come out of PNG for decades, a classic exemplar of how a modern ethnography should be researched and written up. It breaks new ground." * Chris Gregory, Australian National University "[This book] is well written and readable [and] provides both a dense and nuanced ethnography that reveals important insights into - the radical cultural changes that follow from demographic change, land-conflicts and economic scarcity. The book manages to explore that development by continually engaging the writings of earlier anthropologists in the area, supported by rich empirical detail." * Knut Rio, University of Bergen

• List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Note on Language General maps (Maps 1 and 2) Introduction: Land Politics and Postcolonial Sociality in the Wake of Environmental Disaster Chapter 1. An Orientation to the Shifting Patterns of Tolai Land Tenure Chapter 2. Land at Sikut: Freedom from Kastomand Economic Development Chapter 3. Kulia: an Ambiguous Transaction Chapter 4. What Makes a Landholder: a Case Study of a Matupit Land Dispute Chapter 5. Kastom, Family and Clan: Extending and Limiting Obligations Chapter 6. Kastom and Contested Reciprocity Chapter 7. Big Shots, Corned Beef and Big Heads Chapter 8. A Fish Trap for Kastom Chapter 9. Big Men, Big Shots and Bourgeois Individuals: conflicts over moral obligation and the limits of reciprocity Chapter 10. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: the Big Shot as Contemporary Melanesian Possessive Individual Chapter 11. Conclusions Glossary References Index