Author: James Richardson LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Ethnology of the Indo- Pacific Islands
Author: James Richardson LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
On the Road of the Winds
Author: Patrick Vinton KirchPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520234618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
The Ethnology of the Indo-Pacific Islands
Author: James Richardson LoganEthnology of the Indo-Pacific Islands
Author: James Richardson LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
Author: Jeannette MageoPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800730551
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.
Saltwater Sociality
Author: Katharina SchneiderPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857453017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
The Power of Perspective
Author: Knut Mikjel RioPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845452933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in different situations in Ambrym society. This model challenges the premises of much Western thinking about reciprocity, and suggests new directions in the analysis of Melanesian societies
Bibliotheca indosinica
Author: Henri CordierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Author: Christina TorenPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385789
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Author: John ConnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351743716
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region. The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their fieldsites as well as observing elements of continuity. They bring to their accounts a sense of their surprise at some of the unexpected elements of stability and of transformation. The authors take a range of disciplinary approaches, particularly geography and anthropology, and their contributions reflect their deep knowledge of Pacific places, some first visited more than 40 years ago. Many of the chapters focus on aspects of socio-economic change and continuity, while others focus on specific issues such as the impact of both internal and international migration, political and cultural change, technological innovation and the experiences of children and youth. By focusing on both change and continuity this collection of 11 case studies shows the complex relationships between Pacific societies and processes of ‘modernity’ and globalisation. By using a long-term lens on particular places, the authors are able to draw out the subtleties of change and its impacts, while also paying attention to what, in the contemporary Pacific, has been left remarkably unchanged. Filling a gap in the studies of the Pacific region, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the fields of anthropology, development, geography, and Asia-Pacific studies.