Pacific futures : projects, politics, and interests / / edited by Will Rollason ; contributors Annelin Eriksen [and nine others]

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.0995
• Soggetto topico: Pacific Islaners - Social life and cutoms; Ethnology - Oceania
• Soggetto geografico: Oceania Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RollasonWill; EriksenAnnelin
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 and Tuvalu - Vilsoni Hereniko; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.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
• Titolo autorizzato: Pacific futures
• ISBN: 1-78238-351-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458504103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists