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This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind

John Barker is a writer and book indexer. He is the author of Bending the Bars, a memoir of the time he spent in prison as a result of a conviction for conspiring to cause explosions. He served an additional five-year sentence in the early 1990s for conspiring to import cannabis.

While a burgeoning body of research explores how families shape children's everyday experiences, less is known about how families influence children's future aspirations. Drawing on two research projects exploring children's mobility, this article explores children and young people's aspirations for cars in adulthood. The article considers what these aspirations can tell us about current and future relationships between children, siblings and parents. It draws on the concept of 'habitus' to demonstrate how expectations around future car ownership are not aspatial – aspirations are informed by locally derived cultures of parenting and local economic, political and planning contexts. In doing so, the article critiques broader theorisations of automobility that assume an independent, autonomous adult and instead points to an understanding of the role that families play in developing relationally produced aspirations about cars.