Robert R. Foster and Heather A. Horst (Eds.), The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives

Abstract

In their edited book, The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones, Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst take the reader to the South Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Vanuatu to examine how mobile communication has played into the local cultures. The book includes six chapters in addition to two commentary essays and an introduction. The contributing authors are anthropologists from North American and Australian universities. Interestingly, this book is framed around E. P. Thompson’s (1967) notion of moral economy. The book contains four chapters that focus on Papua New Guinea, one that examines Fiji, and one that studies Vanuatu.