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Author | : Paul Sillitoe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521778060 |
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This book, first published in 2000, is a companion volume to An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia (1998). It gives a clear and absorbing account of social change in Melanesia since the arrival of Europeans covering the history of the colonial period and the new postcolonial states. Paul Sillitoe deals with economic and technological change, labour migration and urbanisation, and formation of the modern state, but he also describes the sometimes violent reactions to these dramatic transformations, in the form of cargo cults, secession movements, and insurrections against multinational companies. He discusses development projects but brings out associated policy dilemmas, reviews developments that threaten the environment, and implications for local identity, such as romanticises 'primitive culture'. This fascinating account of social change in the pacific is addressed to students with little or no background in the region's history and development.
Author | : Cyril S. Belshaw |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : New Caledonia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Holly Wardlow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351886215 |
Download The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Cyril Shirley Belshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Melanesia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Martha Macintyre |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1760460893 |
Download Transformations of Gender in Melanesia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities. ‘This collection is a welcome addition to the study of gender in Melanesia … Collectively, the essays present complex, locally contextualised and regionally situated case studies of gender transformation occurring alongside, in many instances, the re-codification of hegemonic gendered norms and practices. Gender is not understood as simply code for women in this volume rather, the majority of chapters incorporate men and masculinities in their analysis of gender relations and dynamics. A highlight of the collection is the attention paid to how “the politics of tradition” (and of modernity) are expressed through morally loaded concepts of the “good” or “bad” woman or man and vice versa.’ — Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne
Author | : Darrell L. Whiteman |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2002-05-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725202190 |
Download Melanesians and Missionaries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'In Melanesians and Missionaries', one of the best of the younger generation of missionary anthropologists demonstrates that a commitment to the missionary enterprise on the part of a solid scholar facilitates, rather than hinders, the anthropological study of a missionary topic. This is better anthropology because Dr. Whiteman is able to probe more deeply into his topic and demonstrates that he understands and appreciates both Melanesians and missionaries." Charles H. Kraft, Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
Author | : Sandra C. Bamford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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This collection of original essays critically examines the relationship between ritual, embodiment, and social change in the South Pacific. Over the past few decades, the societies of Melanesia have undergone profound and revolutionary social change. Encounters with colonialism, postcolonialism, and the forces of globalization have put indigenous peoples in touch with processes of state formation, late capitalist culture, and the emergence of a complex network of transnational identities. In addition to shaping the contours of the nation state, these developments are having a profound impact on the nature of embodied experience. In recent years, many Melanesian societies have witnessed the rise of charismatic Christianity, changing gender configurations, and the growing use of consumerism as a means of defining new social and political hierarchies. Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity provides detailed analyses of those social changes that are becoming part of contemporary Melanesia. Written by experts with first-hand fieldwork experience, this volume furnishes novel insights concerning the social implications of modernity and postmodernity. More specifically, it addresses two interrelated themes: how the rise of new social and economic forms has influenced the ways in which Melanesians think about, experience and act upon their bodies, and the ways in which these new forms of bodily experience contribute to the emergence of new social and cultural identities. This book is part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "While this volume will be of particular interest for regional specialists and theorists of the body, it also makes important contributions to historical analysis of colonial and post-colonial interpretations of modernity and ritual studies. The editor also deserves credit for bringing together a cohesive text, one in which the articles usefully speak to and complement one another." -- Anthropological Forum "This book is a must read for scholars of Melanesia and all scholars of the Anthropology of the Body. There is much to be gleaned theoretically from these ethnographically rich essays." -- Oceania
Author | : Marty Zelenietz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Austronesien |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jonathan Friedman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : |
Download Melanesian Modernities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume on the anthropology of modern Melanesia deals with topics such as: modern forms of kinship and reciprocity; the contemporary transformations of magic and witchcraft; the articulation of kinship organization and urbanization; the assimilation of urban trappings of modernity to interclan competition; and the politics of culture in Melanesian social movements. The notion of tradition is itself problematized here, rather than taken for granted, and the text contains one of the very last published articles of the late Roger Keesing, who pioneered the study of modern social and political realities in the Pacific.
Author | : Edward LiPuma |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Anglicans |
ISBN | : 9780472088355 |
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An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society