Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists – serie
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17 produkter
Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought …
Pacific Futures
Projects, Politics and Interests
Inbunden, 2014
1861 kr
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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 …
Belonging in Oceania
Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
Av Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and …
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Av Christina Toren, Simonne Pauwels
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, …
In the Absence of the Gift
New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, …
Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Häftad, 2016
532 kr
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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought …
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Av Christina Toren, Simonne Pauwels
Häftad, 2017
527 kr
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Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, …
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Av Laurent Dousset, Mélissa Nayral
Inbunden, 2018
1861 kr
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Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. …
If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink
Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu
Inbunden, 2020
1620 kr
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Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal …
In the Absence of the Gift
New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Häftad, 2020
511 kr
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By adopting ideas like “development,” members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, …
Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Inbunden, 2020
1880 kr
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Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years. It describes how they …
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Inbunden, 2022
1921 kr
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On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual …
Pacific Spaces
Translations and Transmutations
Av A.-Chr Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1916 kr
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Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book – architectural practitioners, architectural and spatial design theorists, anthropologists and …
Melanesian Mainstream
Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu
Inbunden, 2024
1979 kr
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Citizens of Vanuatu (ni-Vanuatu) perceive stringband music as a marker of national identity, an indicator of their cultural, stylistic, and musical heritage. Through extensive field and ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream offers a detailed historical record of the roots, context, …
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Häftad, 2024
307 kr
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On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual …
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Av Laurent Dousset, Mélissa Nayral
Häftad, 2026
454 kr
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Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. …
Culturing Money
Double Movements in the Marshall Islands
Inbunden, 2026
2047 kr
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The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. These values are consciously pitted against selfishness, wage-labour, and money dependency, which are values commonly deemed to belong to …
