Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Managing the Pacific -- Development and its dilemmas -- Being personally modern? -- Land matters -- Rationally religious? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Occultism in cultural modernity -- The intellectualisation of magic and religion -- Rational illusions of secular modernity -- Pandaemonium: mythic modernities and human religion -- Millennial capitalism: occult economies and magical states -- Conclusion: modernity as a demon-haunted universe -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- The (not so) Pacific? -- Economies of scale? -- Desire in the postcolony -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Working for the mine -- The double shift -- Working women and community attitudes -- Career women working in towns -- Self-interest and modern selves -- Bride price -- Managing money -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Welcoming the church -- Bringing down the company -- Mismanaging modernity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Living a biblical life -- The true me -- The politics of christian subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- The fast money rush -- Greed and gullibility? cargo or investment? -- Productive investment? -- Nationalism and consumption -- A nation of shareholders -- Balthasar and Rebecca: banks and the critique of the nation -- Isaac: the righteous investor -- Christian citizens of a corrupt and immoral nation -- Consumer citizens, corporate citizenship and national development -- The moral critique of the possessive individual -- Patrons, clients and neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Neoliberalism and the age of chance -- Gambling, governance and the cook Islands economy -- Home and housie -- Women, work and gambling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Islands of winmoni -- New standards for reasonable accomplishment -- PV in the Lihir islands -- Lessons in self-mastery.

Personal Viability anthem -- Self-discipline -- Investing (in)dividuals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Relocating trusts in a Pacific tax haven -- The aesthetics of trust management and fictive kinship in the mobility of money -- Background: tax havens and offshore capitalisms -- Trusts, fiduciaries and the separation of persons and property -- Privileged papers, Swiss bank accounts and hawai'ian credit cards -- Fiduciaries, bilateral flows and family relations -- Methods for 'ethnographic elicitations' -- Letting go -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Copyright.