Managing Modernity in the Western PacificManaging Modernity in the Western Pacific takes the reader on a broad sweep through contemporary topics in Melanesian anthropology and ethnography, and brings the strands together with nuanced and rigorous scholarship. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Thereby enabled to improve their standards of living, they would