Terms for affective constructs and references to social ideals proliferate in the ethnography of the Mekeo, but these are often inconsistently defined and treated in isolation. I here attempt to produce a more coherent account of relevant terms and, ultimately, a systematic representation of the ontologically disparate elements that combined to produce a viable socio‐moral order in twentieth‐century Mekeo village society. The exercise reveals unexpected synergies between seemingly unrelated dispositions and emotions, espoused values and enacted Using Bourdieu's concept of a ‘generative model’ (1990) I develop a schematic account that brings a gamut of diverse socio‐moral constructs into semi‐orderly alignment with the realities of a disorderly lifeworld. For a certain time at least, the socio‐moral discourse and practices summarised in this schema successfully resolved the basic lived problem of the Mekeo lifeworld—the antinomy between a social structure based on inequality and the intransigence of a narcissistic and hubristic inner male self.
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