| Description |
vii, 449 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Explorations in anthropology |
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Explorations in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Knowing Oceania or Oceanian knowing : identifying actors and activating identities in turbulent times / Jonathan Friedman -- Inventing natives -- negotiating local identities : postcolonial readings of colonial texts on island Melanesia / Bronwen Douglas -- Writing local history in Solomon Islands / Ben Burt -- 'Noble savages' and the 'Islands of love' : Trobriand Islanders in 'popular publications' / Gunter Senft -- Contrasting transcripts : constructing images and identities in mediations among the Wam people of Papua New Guinea / Nigel A. Stephenson -- The identity construction of ethnic and social groups in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Berit Gustafsson -- Reinventing identities : redefining cultural concepts in the struggle between villagers in Munda, Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands, for the control of land / Gerhard Schneider -- 'Alas! and on we go' / Philippe Peltier -- Resource management in Lavongai and Tigak Islands : changing practices, changing identities / Ton Otto -- Metaphors, media and social change : second-generation Cook Islanders in New Zealand / Thomas K. Fitzgerald -- Identity construction as a cooperative project : anthropological film-making with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa peoples, Reef Islands, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands / Jens Pinholt -- National identity : Australia after Mabo / Robert Tonkinson -- Knowing the country : Mabo, native title and 'traditional' law in aboriginal Australia / Ad Borsboom -- 'All one but different : aboriginality : national identity versus local diversification in Australia / Barbara Glowczewski -- Essentially black, essentially Australian, essentially opposed : Australian anthropology and its use of aboriginal identity / John Morton -- Culture and democracy among the Maori / Toon van Meijl -- Is aristocracy good for democracy? A contemporary debate in Western Samoa / Serge Tcherkézoff |
| Summary |
Based on extensive work, this book addresses a subject of great immediacy to people of the Pacific Island nations. It fills a gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region & navigates what had previously been considered uncharted |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Attitudes.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
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Anthropology -- Oceania.
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Culture conflict -- Oceania.
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Australians -- Race identity.
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Democracy -- Pacific Area.
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Democracy -- Samoa.
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Ethnicity -- Oceania.
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Group identity -- Pacific Area.
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Maori (New Zealand people) -- Attitudes.
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Nationalism -- Pacific Area.
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Native title (Australia)
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Pacific Islanders -- Attitudes.
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Pacific Islanders -- Ethnic identity.
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Papuans -- Ethnic identity.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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Pacific Area -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116489
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| Author |
Wassmann, Jürg.
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| LC no. |
98150948 |
| ISBN |
1859731546 |
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1859731597 paperback |
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9781859731543 |
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9781859731598 paperback |
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