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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Table of Contents:
- 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.