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As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of the historical contingency of these configurations of inequality, this volume illustrates the multidimensional, multiscale and epistemic nature of contemporary inequality. This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now ranks among the greatest challenges of our time. The inspiration for this volume derives from the breadth and depth of Martha Macintyre's remarkable scholarship. The contributors celebrate Macintyre's groundbreaking work, which exemplifies the explanatory power, ethical force and pragmatism that ensures the relevance of anthropological research to the lives of others and to understanding the global condition.

Changing social norms has become the preferred approach in global efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we trace the rise of social norms within GBV-related policy and practice and their transformation from social processes that exist in the world to beliefs that exist in the minds of individuals. The analytic framework that underpins social norms approaches has been subject to ongoing critical revision but continues to have significant issues in its conceptualisation of power and its sidelining of the political economy. These issues are particularly apparent in the use of individualised measures of social norms that cannot demonstrate causation, and conflation of social norms with culture. Recognising that the pressure to measure may be a key factor in reducing the complexity of the social norms approach, we call for the use of mixed methods in documenting the factors and processes that contribute to GBV and the effectiveness of interventions. As social norms approaches are increasingly prioritised over addressing the non-normative contributors to GBV (such as access to and control over productive resources), awareness of the limitations of social norms approaches is vital.

Prologue: Pragmatism, Prescience and Principle / Neil Maclean -- 1. Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific / Nicholas Bainton and Debra McDougall -- 2. 'I Will Be Travelling to Kavieng!': Work, Labour and Inequality in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea / Paige West and John Aini -- 3. The Unequal Place of Anthropology in Cross-Disciplinary Research on Environmental Management in the Pacific and What to Do About It / Simon Foale -- 4. The Problem of the Semi-Alienable Anthropologist / Melissa Demian -- 5. Global Health, Tuberculosis and Local Health Campaigns: Reinforcing and Reshaping Health and Gender Inequalities in Lihir, Papua New Guinea / Susan R. Hemer -- 6. The Missionary's Dilemma: A Short History of Christian Marriage and its Impact upon Gender Equality in Maisin Society / John Barker -- 7. Gendered Ambition and Disappointment: Women and Men in a Vernacular Language Education Movement in Melanesia / Debra McDougall -- 8. Stingy Egalitarianism: Precarity and Jealousy at the Sisiak Settlement, Madang, Papua New Guinea / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington -- 9. Inequalities of Aspiration: Class, Cargo and the Moral Economy of Development in Papua New Guinea / John Cox -- 10. Exiles and Empty Houses: Contingent Events and Their Aftermath in the Ok Tedi Hinterland / Dan Jorgensen -- 11. Transforming Inequalities and Uncertainty: Gender, Generational and Class Dimensions in the Gende's Longue Durée / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- 12. From Donation to Handout: Resource Wealth and Transformations of Leadership in Huli Politics / Michael Main -- 13. Measuring Mobilities and Inequalities in Papua New Guinea's Mining Workforce / Colin Filer -- 14. Menacing the Mine: Double Asymmetry and Mutual Incomprehension in Lihir /Nicholas Bainton -- 15. Intersecting Inequalities, Moving Positionalities: An Interlude / Margaret Jolly.

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences