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UNINA9910815799603321 |
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Titolo |
Pacific futures : projects, politics, and interests / / edited by Will Rollason ; contributors Annelin Eriksen [and nine others] |
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New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pacific Perspectives : Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; ; Volume 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pacific Islaners - Social life and cutoms |
Ethnology - Oceania |
Oceania Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Pacific Futures; Pacific Futures - Projects, Politics and Interests - Edited by Will Rollason; Contents; Figures and Tables; Introduction - Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges - Will Rollason; 1 Imagining the Future - An Existential and Practical Activity - Lisette Josephides; 2 The Hanging of Buliga - A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea - Will Rollason; 3 Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill - Contraception and the Future of Paama - Craig Lind; 4 Gambling Futures - Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea - Anthony Pickles |
5 The Future of Christian Critique - Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics - Courtney Handman6 A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu - A Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing - Annelin Eriksen; 7 Chiefs for the Future? Roles of Traditional Titleholders in the Cook Islands - Arno Pascht; 8 A Coup-less Future for Fiji? - Between Rhetoric and Political Reality - Dominik Schieder |
9 The Devouring of the Placenta - The Criss-crossing and Confluence of Cosmological, Geomorphological, Ecological and Economic Cycles of Destruction and Repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand - Dave Robinson10 The Human Face of Climate Change - Notes from Rotuma |
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and Tuvalu - Vilsoni Hereniko; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures |
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