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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Other Authors: Rollason, Will (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Pacific perspectives ; volume 2.
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505 0 |a Pacific futures, methodological challenges / Will Rollason -- Imagining the future : an existential and practical activity / Lisette Josephides -- The hanging of Buliga : a history of the future in the Louisiade Archipelago, PNG / Will Rollason -- Why the future is selfish and could kill : contraception and the future of Paama / Craig Lind -- Gambling futures : playing the imminent in highland Papua New Guinea / Anthony Pickles -- The future of Christian critique : lost tribes discourses in Papua New Guinean publics / Courtney Handman -- A cursed past and a prosperous future in Vanuatu : a comparison of different conceptions of self and healing / Annelin Eriksen -- Chiefs for the future? : roles of traditional titleholders in the Cook Islands / Arno Pascht -- A coup-less future for Fiji? : between rhetoric and political reality / Dominik Schieder -- The devouring of the placenta : the crisscrossing and confluence of cosmological, geomorphological, ecological, and economic cycles of destruction and repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand / Dave Robinson -- The human face of climate change : notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu / Vilsoni Hereniko. 
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