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Titolo: | 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 |
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the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.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.: | 9910791030403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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