In Memory of Times to Come

Melissa Demian is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She has conducted research in Papua New Guinea for over twenty years, and has published on the topics of customary law, legal pluralism, legal history, child adoption, narratives of cultural loss and cultural patrimony, gender, and urbanization.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: On anthropology and history in the Pacific



Chapter 1. Naming, loss, and waiting: “Suau” as a historical category

Chapter 2. Death, kastom, and the work of forgetting

Chapter 3. Times past, or, the Golden Age

Chapter 4. Old roads, new roads: temporal cartography

Chapter 5. Times present, or, “no government here”

Chapter 6. Times to come (in the near future)



Conclusion



References

Index