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Making Sense of Micronesia : The Logic of Pacific Island Culture /
Why are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most part, laugh openly when others embarrass themselves? What does a smile mean to an islander? What might a sudden lapse into silence signify?...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The personal touch -- Forging an identity -- The limits of the individual -- The place of wealth -- The uses of information -- Deciphering the unspoken -- Showing respect -- The matter of sex -- The real power of women -- Love and its expression -- Coping with conflict -- Handling uncertainty and loss. | |
| 520 | |a Why are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most part, laugh openly when others embarrass themselves? What does a smile mean to an islander? What might a sudden lapse into silence signify? These questions are common in encounters with an unfamiliar Pacific Island culture. This book is intended for westerners who find themselves in contact with Micronesians - as teachers, social workers, health-care providers, or simply as friends - and are puzzled by their island ways. It is for anyone struggling to make sense of cultural exchanges they don't quite understand. The author focuses on the guts of island culture: the importance of the social map, the tension between the individual and social identity, the ways in which wealth and knowledge are used, the huge importance of respect, emotional expression and its restraints, island ways of handling both conflict and intimacy, the real but indirect power of women. Far from a theoretical exposition, the book begins and ends with the real-life behavior of islanders. Each section of every chapter is introduced by a vignette that illustrates the theme discussed. The book attempts to explain island behavior, as curious as it may seem to outsiders at times, against the over-riding pattern of values and attitudes that have always guided island life. Even as the author maps the cultural terrain of Micronesia, he identifies those areas where island logic and the demands of the modern world conflict: the "dilemmas of development." In some cases, changes are being made; in others, the very features of island culture that were highly functional in the past may remain so even today. Overall, he advocates restraint - in our judgments on island practices, in our assumption that many of these are dysfunctional, and in leading the charge for "development" before understanding the broader context of the culture we are trying to convert. | ||
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