Globalization and culture change in the Pacific Islands /

Globalization and culture change in the Pacific Islands / Globalisation and culture change in the Pacific Islands edited by Victoria S. Lockwood. - ix, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Exploring cultures . - Exploring cultures. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Global Imperative and Pacific Island Societies / Need the Pacific Always Be So Pacific? / Crime and "Tribal" Warfare in Contemporary Papua New Guinea / Fiji's Coups: The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics / Legal Pluralism in Pacific Island Societies / Stepping-Stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands Case / Print Advertisements and Nation Making in Metropolitan Papua New Guinea / All Tongans Are Connected: Tongan Transnationalism / Global Imperatives and Local Desires: Competing Economic and Environmental Interests in Melanesian Communities / Transnationalism and Transformation in Samoan Society / Wave and Reflection: Charting Marshallese Participation in Globalizing Processes / Market Highs: Alcohol, Drugs, and the Global Economy in Oceania / Recovering and Rebuilding after the Tsunami in Papua New Guinea: International Aid and Village Aspirations / The Meanings of Work in Contemporary Palau: Policy Implications of Globalization in the Pacific / Environmental Change, Economic Development, and Emigration in Tuvalu / Toward an Ethnographically Grounded Study of Modernity in Papua New Guinea / Placing Tahitian Identities: Rooted in Land and Enmeshed in Representations / The Impact of the Pacific War on Modern Micronesian Identity / Tradition Sells: Identity Merchandise in the Island Pacific / Cannibalizing, Commodifying, or Creating Culture? Power and Art in Sepik River Tourism / "Killing Time" in a Postcolonial Town: Young People and Settlements in Port Vila, Vanuatu / South Seas Confidential: The Politics of Interethnic Relationships in Colonial Samoa / Pushing Children Up: Maternal Obligation, Modernity, and Medicine in the Tongan Ethnoscape / The Transformation of Person and Place on Enewetak and Ujelang Atoll / Between Heaven and Earth: Missionaries, Environmentalists, and the Maisin / Converted Worlds, Converted Lives: History and Opposition in Agarabi Adventism / Victoria S. Lockwood -- Robert Borofsky -- Paul Roscoe -- Martha Kaplan -- Richard Scaglion -- Christine Jourdan -- Robert J. Foster -- Helen Morton Lee -- Martha Macintyre and Simon Foale -- Gluny Macpherson -- Jim Hess -- Mac Marshall -- Robert L. Welsch -- Karen L. Nero, Fermina Brel Murray and Michael L. Burton -- John Connell -- Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington -- Miriam Kahn -- Lin Poyer, Suzanne Falgout and Laurence M. Carucci -- Jocelyn Linnekin -- Eric Kline Silverman -- Jean Mitchell -- Paul Shankman -- Heather Young Leslie -- Laurence Marshall Carucci -- John Barker -- George Westermark. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

0130421731 9780130421739

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Ethnology--Oceania
Globalization--Oceania
Culture diffusion--Oceania
Social change--Oceania


Oceania--Social conditions
Oceania--Ethnic relations
Oceania--Politics and government

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