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This collection explores how households understand and pursue a good life when obligations, resources and expectations are changing. Ethnographic studies examine the values expressed through funerals, housing, food, migration and relationships within and beyond the home.
Contributors discuss communities in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, northern Australia and India. Chapters consider respect at funerals, customary and legal responsibilities, transnational households and changing standards of living. The essays compare different accounts of prosperity and security through detailed local cases, supported by maps, genealogical diagrams, tables and references.