03766nam 2200625 450 991045850410332120200520144314.01-78238-351-4(CKB)2550000001317363(EBL)1420460(SSID)ssj0001227835(PQKBManifestationID)12532541(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001227835(PQKBWorkID)11278978(PQKB)11498257(MiAaPQ)EBC1420460(Au-PeEL)EBL1420460(CaPaEBR)ebr10883303(CaONFJC)MIL619036(OCoLC)881509765(EXLCZ)99255000000131736320140627h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPacific futures projects, politics, and interests /edited by Will Rollason ; contributors Annelin Eriksen [and nine others]New York :Berghahn,2014.©20141 online resource (256 p.)Pacific Perspectives : Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ;Volume 2Includes index.1-78238-350-6 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 Pickles5 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 Schieder9 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 and Tuvalu - Vilsoni Hereniko; Notes on Contributors; IndexThe 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the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.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 futuresPacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for OceanistsPacific IslanersSocial life and cutomsEthnologyOceaniaOceaniaSocial life and customsElectronic books.Pacific IslanersSocial life and cutoms.Ethnology306.0995Rollason WillEriksen AnnelinMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458504103321Pacific futures1992390UNINA