1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136756203321

Autore

Bambridge Tamatoa

Titolo

The Rahui : legal pluralism in Polynesian traditional management of resources and territories / / edited by Tamatoa Bambridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2016

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-925022-91-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

ANU Press Pacific series

Classificazione

341.193

Disciplina

342.085297

Soggetti

Legal polycentricity - Polynesia

Polynesia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Tapu and rahui : traditions and pluralistic organisation of society -- pt. 2. Rahui today as state-custom pluralism.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection deals with an ancient institution in Eastern Polynesia called the rahui, a form of restricting access to resources and/or territories. While tapu had been extensively discussed in the scientific literature on Oceanian anthropology, the rahui is quite absent from secondary modern literature. This situation is all the more problematic because individual actors, societies, and states in the Pacific are readapting such concepts to their current needs, such as environment regulation or cultural legitimacy. This book assembles a comprehensive collection of current works on the rahui from a legal pluralism perspective. This study as a whole underlines the new assertion of identity that has flowed from the cultural dimension of the rahui. Today, rahui have become a means for indigenous communities to be fully recognised on a political level. Some indigenous communities choose to restore the rahui in order to preserve political control of their territory or, in some cases, to get it back. For the state, better control of the rahui represents a way of asserting its legitimacy and its sovereignty, in the face of this reassertion by indigenous communities.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814641703321

Autore

Elkins James <1955->

Titolo

Chinese landscape painting as Western art history / / James Elkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2010

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

759.951

Soggetti

Landscape painting, Chinese - Appreciation - Western countries

Art criticism - Western countries - History

Art - History - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Lists of Plates""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Iterated Introductions""; ""I: A Brace of Comparisons""; ""II: Tying Some Laces ""; ""III: The Argument""; ""IV: The Endgame, and the Qing Eclipse""; ""V: Postscripts""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

An  essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art.