Author: Anne Faurve ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Exchange and Social Organization in Nanumea, a Polynesian Atoll Society
Author: Anne Faurve ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Unity of Heart
Author: Keith ChambersPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478608293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.
Tuvaluan
Author: Niko BesnierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497471X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific
Author: R. FeinbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000323552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Literacy, Emotion and Authority
Author: Niko BesnierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521485395
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual.
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy
Author: Brian V. StreetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521409643
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic 'consequences' of literacy, these largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the last ten years. Accounts of literacy practices in a variety of locations, including Great Britain, the United States, Africa, the South Pacific and Madagascar, illustrate how these practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the traditional view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society.
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
Author: Yonique CampbellPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811652856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on six key themes: public health; the economies (notably the collapse of tourism, the revival of local agriculture and fishing, and the rebirth of self-reliance, and even barter); the rescue by remittances; social tensions and responses; public policy; and future ‘bubbles’ and regional connections. Even with marine borders that excluded the virus all island states were affected by COVID-19 because of a considerable dependence on tourism – prompting urgent challenges for governance, economic management and development, as small states sought to balance lives against livelihoods in search of revitalisation or even a ‘new normal’.
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Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Preliminary Bibliography of Traditional Currencies and Trade Systems of Oceania
Author: Colin BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description