Changing contexts, shifting meanings : transformations of cultural traditions in Oceania /

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"This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hermann, Elfriede (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, ©2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Pacific Islanders > Congresses.
Social change > Oceania > Congresses.
Océaniens > Congrès.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Civilization.
Pacific Islanders.
Social change.
Kulturwandel
Sozialer Wandel
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Identität
Oceania > Civilization > Congresses.
Oceania.
Ozeanien
Electronic books.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations / Elfriede Hermann
  • Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: The Cook/Forster Collection, For Example / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
  • Part I. Early Encounters.
  • Histories of the Before: Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time / David Hanlon
  • Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures / Margaret Jolly
  • Encountering Agency: Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania / Bronwen Douglas
  • Aphrodite's Island: Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti / Anne Salmond
  • An Encounter with Violence in Paradise: Georg Forster's Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772-1775) / Gundolf Krüger
  • Inventing Polynesia / Serge Tcherkézoff
  • Part II. Memories.
  • Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu / Lamont Lindstrom
  • Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus / Ton Otto
  • Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance: Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past / Wolfgang Kempf
  • Part III. Global and (Trans)local Processes.
  • Moving onto the Stage: Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance / Miriam Kahn
  • Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market: The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia / Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris
  • Alienation and Appropriation: Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York / Martha Kaplan
  • Shanti and Mana: The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji / John D. Kelly
  • Justice in Wallis-'Uvea: Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
  • Part IV. Cultural Exchange and Identities.
  • Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past / Toon van Meijl
  • Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity / Paul van der Grijp
  • A Tale of Three Time Travelers: Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies / Karen L. Nero
  • Cultural Change in Oceania: Remembering the Historical Questions / Peter Hempenstall
  • Epilogue / Aletta Biersack.

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