Made in Oceania : social movements, cultural heritage and the state in the Pacific / edited by Edvard Hviding and Knut M. Rio. - vi, 353 pages : illustrations, maps, plan, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pacific made : social movements between cultural heritage and the state / Knut M. Rio and Edvard Hviding -- Re-imagining the economy in Vanuatu : an interview with Ralph Regenvanu / Ralph Regenvanu and Haidy Geismar -- Re-placing the state in the western Solomon Islands : the political rise of the Christian Fellowship Church / Edvard Hviding -- Voyaging, cultural heritage, and rites of passage : the Hawaiian transformation of Pacific and global space / Rolf Scott -- Nan Madol on Pohnpei : the future of its past / David Hanlon -- From kastam to kalsa? : leadership, cultural heritage and modernization in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea / Steffen Dalsgaard and Ton Otto -- The rise of the Pleiades : the quest for identity and the politics of tradition in French Polynesia / Guillaume Alévêque -- Dancing diplomacy : performance and the politics of protocol in Australia / Rosita Henry -- The Makiran underground army : kastom mysticism and ontology politics in south-east Solomon Islands / Michael W. Scott -- High chief, waetman and the codification of ritual objects in Vanuatu / Knut M. Rio -- Personhood, cargo, and Melanesian social unities / Lamont Lindstrom -- Solomon Islands cultural policy? : a brief history of practice / Lawrence Foana'ota and Geoffrey White -- Describing knowledge and practice in Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton -- Are the grassroots growing? : intangible cultural heritage lawmaking in Fiji and in Oceania / Guido Carlo Pigliasco.

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Politics and culture--Oceania
Social movements--Oceania


Oceania--Social conditions--20th century.
Oceania--Social life and customs--20th century.

GN663 / .M33 2011

306.0995