Changing Standards of Living: The Paradoxes of Building a Good Life in Rural Vanuatu

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Abstract

The construction of a ‘good house’ had become a preoccupation for seasonal-worker households in my fieldwork site of Lamen Bay on the island of Epi, and the small offshore Lamen island, by the time of my arrival in Vanuatu in November 2011. The day after I landed in Lamen Bay, my host mother, Mary,1 took me on a tour along the dirt road that looped around the settlement, pointing out the many new houses and more under construction.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times
Subtitle of host publicationEthnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy
EditorsChris Gregory, Jon Altman
PublisherAustralian National University (ANU)
Chapter3
Pages33-55
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

Publication series

NameMonographs in Anthropology

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