Pacific futures : projects, politics, and interests /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Pacific perspectives ;
volume 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific pe. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782383512 1782383514 |