Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings : : Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania /

Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings : : Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania / / ed. by Elfriede Hermann.

This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insig...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Biersack, Aletta,
Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise,
Douglas, Bronwen,
Grijp, Paul van der,
Hanlon, David,
Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta,
Hempenstall, Peter,
Hermann, Elfriede,
Jolly, Margaret,
Kahn, Miriam,
Kaplan, Martha,
Kelly, John D.,
Kempf, Wolfgang,
Krüger, Gundolf,
Lewis-Harris, Jacquelyn A.,
Lindstrom, Lamont,
Little, Stephen,
Meijl, Toon van,
Nero, Karen L.,
Otto, Ton,
Salmond, Anne,
Tcherkézoff, Serge,
HerausgeberIn:
Hermann, Elfriede,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 73 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations
  • Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: The Cook /Forster Collection, for Example
  • Part I. Early Encounters
  • Histories of the BeforeL Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time
  • Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures
  • Encountering Agency: Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania
  • Aphrodite's Island: Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti
  • An Encounter with Violence in Paradise: Georg Forster's Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772 -1775)
  • Inventing Polynesia
  • Part II. Memories
  • Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu
  • Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus
  • Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance: Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past
  • Part III. Global and (Trans)local Processes
  • Moving onto the Stage: Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance
  • Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market: The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia
  • Alienation and Appropriation: Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York
  • Shanti and Mana: The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji
  • Justice in Wallis-'Uvea: Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory
  • Part IV. Cultural Exchange and Identities
  • Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past
  • Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity
  • A Tale of Three Time Travelers: Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies
  • Cultural Change in Oceania: Remembering the Historical Questions
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index

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