Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison /
Reed, Adam
Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison / Adam Reed. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 Dark Place -- CHAPTER 2 Bus Stop -- CHAPTER 3 Jeffrey’s Flight -- CHAPTER 4 Place of Men -- CHAPTER 5 Place of God -- CHAPTER 6 Following White Men -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781571816948 9781782381815
10.1515/9781782381815 doi
Prison discipline--Papua New Guinea.
Prison psychology--Papua New Guinea.
Prisoners--Social conditions.--Papua New Guinea
Prisons--Papua New Guinea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General).
HV9916.5 / .R44 2006
365.99545 365/.99545
Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison / Adam Reed. - 1 online resource (208 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 Dark Place -- CHAPTER 2 Bus Stop -- CHAPTER 3 Jeffrey’s Flight -- CHAPTER 4 Place of Men -- CHAPTER 5 Place of God -- CHAPTER 6 Following White Men -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781571816948 9781782381815
10.1515/9781782381815 doi
Prison discipline--Papua New Guinea.
Prison psychology--Papua New Guinea.
Prisoners--Social conditions.--Papua New Guinea
Prisons--Papua New Guinea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology (General).
HV9916.5 / .R44 2006
365.99545 365/.99545