Money, Mayhem and the Beast

Narratives of the World's End from New Ireland (Papua NEW Guinea)

Bibliographic Data

ID2252147
AuthorsR Eves (0000-0001-9407-4729, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume9
Issue3
Pages527-547
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9655.00162
OpenAlexW2115796465
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited41

This article discusses the relationship between money, the nation, and new imaginings of apocalypticism in Papua New Guinea. Robert Foster has argued that money played an important role in the Australian administration's efforts to promote a sense of nation at the end of the colonial period. I explore the effects of the new imaginings beyond the nation that are occurring as Christian apocalypticism becomes a dominant framework for interpreting the world. New meanings and values are being attached to money, resulting in the destabilization of the strong link between money and nation that was observed by Foster. I argue that, within this new world-view, money is losing its symbolic potency, that new forms of identity are emerging, and that people's attachment to the nation is being weakened

Aesthetics · Apocalypticism · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · New guinea · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Philosophy

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