ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology – serie
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Anthropology of Empathy
Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies
Av Douglas W. Hollan, C. Jason Throop
Inbunden, 2011
1880 kr
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Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The …
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Av David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1880 kr
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Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It …
Christian Politics in Oceania
Av Matt Tomlinson, Debra McDougall
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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The phrase “Christian politics” evokes two meanings: political relations between denominations in one direction, and the contributions of Christian churches to debates about the governing of society. The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that …
Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
Av Keir Martin
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central …
Creating a Nation with Cloth
Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora
Inbunden, 2013
1880 kr
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Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation— fonua—which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern …
Polynesian Iconoclasm
Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian …
Engaging with Strangers
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, …
Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
Av Keir Martin
Häftad, 2015
516 kr
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In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central …
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Av David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It …
Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Av David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous …
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Av Jeannette Mageo, Elfriede Hermann
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings …
Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Av Jenny Munro
Inbunden, 2018
889 kr
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For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic …
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Inbunden, 2019
1861 kr
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Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytelling as the region’s main nighttime activity. Money Games is an ethnographic monograph which reveals the contemporary importance of gambling in urban Papua New Guinea. Rich …
Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Av David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman
Häftad, 2019
527 kr
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Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous …
Engaging with Strangers
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
Häftad, 2020
543 kr
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The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, …
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Av Jeannette Mageo, Bruce Knauft
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich …
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2021
1880 kr
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Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active participants in the Second World War. In Memory …
Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Av Tom Bratrud
Inbunden, 2022
1921 kr
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In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for …
Omie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Inbunden, 2022
1318 kr
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The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical …
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2023
527 kr
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Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of missionization and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active participants in the Second World War. In Memory …
Enacted Relations
Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
Inbunden, 2024
1861 kr
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The Yolngu Indigenous people in the Northeast Arnhem Land of Australia respond to neo-colonial challenges by continuing to affirm their political autonomy and transmit ‘Yolngu Law’, which are ways of knowing and being with the younger generation. They deal with non-Indigenous institutions, through …
Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Av Tom Bratrud
Häftad, 2025
382 kr
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In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. However, it ended dramatically when two men believed to be sorcerers and responsible for much of the society’s problems were hung by persons fearing for …
Prophetic Histories
Time, Theology, and Theocracy in Solomon Islands
Av Jaap Timmer
Inbunden, 2025
1921 kr
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On Malaita in Solomon Islands, an evangelical Israelite-inspired movement centers on a distinctive time-consciousness that reads the historical past and present as prophetic signs of an imminent future. This book examines how these ‘prophetic histories’ interweave biblical narrative, theological …
Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Av Jenny Munro
Häftad, 2026
329 kr
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For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic …
