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

Analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea.

David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift.

Lipset analyses young men's elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone use - in which generational tensions play out together with their disaffection from the state.