Hunger: An Indigenous Theory from West Papua

by Sophie Chao

An ethnography that shows hunger to be fraught with sociopolitical implications and shaped by culture, time, and place.

Hunger explores how Marind communities in Indonesian New Guinea sense and make sense of hunger. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the district of Merauke, Sophie Chao examines hunger as a visceral lived experience, one imbued with ethical, political, and affective significance for those subjected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999157086
• ISBN13: 9780999157084
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 165 Pages