Pacific Futures : : Projects, Politics and Interests / / ed. by Will Rollason.
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 pa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges
- 1 Imagining the Future: An Existential and Practical Activity
- 2 The Hanging of Buliga: A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
- 3 Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill: Contraception and the Future of Paama
- 4 Gambling Futures: Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea
- 5 The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics
- 6 A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu: A Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing
- 7 Chiefs for the Future? Roles of Traditional Titleholders in the Cook Islands
- 8 A Coup-less Future for Fiji? Between Rhetoric and Political Reality
- 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
- 10 The Human Face of Climate Change: Notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu
- Notes on Contributors
- Index