Authenticity And Authorship In Pacific Island Encounters
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Author | : Jeannette Mageo |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1800730551 |
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 complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.
Author | : Tom Bratrud |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2022-04-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1800734654 |
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 the island’s future security. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems, but also carry risks of exacerbating the same problems they arise to address.
Author | : Marta Rohatynskyj |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2022-10-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1800736614 |
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 concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.
Author | : Franca Tamisari |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2024-01-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1805392417 |
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 participation of bodies, language, things, images of movement and notions of mutual care, feelings and accountability. This book explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
Author | : Melissa Demian |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-06-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1800731175 |
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 of Times to Come offers a nuanced account of how people assess their own experience of change over the course of a critical century. It asks two key questions: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future, and what does it mean to claim that one has lost one’s culture, but not because anyone else took it away or destroyed it?
Author | : Jeannette Marie Mageo |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2022-01-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3030902315 |
Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations. Traveling the dreamscapes of a variety of young people, Mimesis and the Dream explores their encounters with American cultures and the identities that derive from these encounters. While ethnographies typically concern shared social habits and practices, this book concerns shared aspects of subjectivity and how people represent and think about them in dreams. Each chapter grounds theory in actual cases. It will be compelling to scholars in multiple disciplines and illustrates how dreaming offers insights into twenty-first century debates and problems within these disciplines, bringing a vital theoretically eclectic approach to dream studies.
Author | : Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1793639981 |
This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
Author | : Suzanne S. Finney |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824847598 |
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of "homework"—ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home—the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between "insiders" and "outsiders." The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia and the Pacific Islands, the collection offers ethnographic updates on topics that range from ritual money burning in China to the militarization of Hawai'i to the social role of text messages in identifying marriage partners in Vanuatu to the cultural power of robots in Japan. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous, these cultural encounters will resonate with readers and provide valuable talking points for exploring the human diversity that makes the study of ourselves and each other simultaneously rewarding and challenging.
Author | : Chris J. Thomas |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0817320946 |
"Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing"--
Author | : Lee Wallace |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501717367 |
European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist history of the Pacific zone and some of its preeminent Western imaginists, Lee Wallace suggests that the fantasy of the male body, rather than of the free-loving female, provides the underlying libidinal structure for many of the classic "encounter" narratives from Cook to Melville. The subject of Sexual Encounters is sexual fantasy, particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature and art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement. Working at the boundaries of a number of disciplines such as queer theory, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and history, Wallace engages in subversive readings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pacific voyage journals (Cook in Hawaii and a Russian expedition to the Marquesas), an argument concerning Gauguin's treatment of female figures, and a discussion of homosexuality and Samoan male-to-female transgenderism. These phenomena, Wallace asserts, demonstrate the continuity and dissonance between Western and Pacific sexual categories. She reconstructs Pacific history through the inevitable entanglement of metropolitan and indigenous sexual regimes and ultimately argues for the importance of the Pacific in defining modern sexual categories.