Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Nanumea
Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Atoll Economy: Nanumea
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kiribati
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kiribati
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Healing Practices in the South Pacific
Author: Claire D. Parsons
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780939154562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780939154562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Exchange and Social Organization in Nanumea, a Polynesian Atoll Society
Author: Anne Faurve Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Tuvalu
Author: Simati Faaniu
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN:
Category : Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This book is a history of Tuvalu written by Tuvaluans. It is intended both as a contribution to the knowledge of Pacific history and as an expression of Tuvalu's cultural identity, complementing the political identity officially born in 1978 when Tuvalu became an independent nation. It is fitting that people who rule their own country should produce a history of their own for they, more than any others, should know--and need to know--who they are"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN:
Category : Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This book is a history of Tuvalu written by Tuvaluans. It is intended both as a contribution to the knowledge of Pacific history and as an expression of Tuvalu's cultural identity, complementing the political identity officially born in 1978 when Tuvalu became an independent nation. It is fitting that people who rule their own country should produce a history of their own for they, more than any others, should know--and need to know--who they are"--Page 4 of cover.
Unity of Heart
Author: Keith Chambers
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478608293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478608293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.
We, the Tikopia
Author: Raymond Firth
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415330206
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415330206
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
Telling Pacific Lives
Author: Vicki Luker
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192131382X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192131382X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher.
Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Author: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Bad Colonists
Author: Vernon Lee Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A look at the particularities of colonial life in the South Pacific through the correspondence of two colonialists.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A look at the particularities of colonial life in the South Pacific through the correspondence of two colonialists.