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Author : Saul H. Riesenberg
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Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Position of Ponape in Oceania written by Saul H. Riesenberg and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824810191
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Oceania written by Douglas L. Oliver and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part 1 of the book...deals with the geography of the region and with the biological, linguistic, and archaeological evidence concerning the origins of the Oceanians and their movements into and within the region. Part 2 describes the tools and techniques by which the recent (but not yet markedly Westernized) Oceanians satisfied their basic, pan-human needs, as qualified by their many different, culturally defined, perceptions of those needs...Finally, Part 3 focuses on the varieties of social structures within which those 'technical' activities took place." -from the Prologue
Author : Elfriede Hermann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860144
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings written by Elfriede Hermann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of tradition. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, contributors stake out a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people—their ideas, actions, and objects—and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, contributors address ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders. Finally, two authorities on Oceania—who themselves move in the intersecting space between anthropology and history—discuss the essays and add their own valuable reflections. With its wealth of illuminating analyses and illustrations, Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, history, art history, museology, Pacific studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Contributors: Aletta Biersack, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon, Bronwen Douglas, David Hanlon, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Peter Hempenstall, Margaret Jolly, Miriam Kahn, Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, Wolfgang Kempf, Gundolf Krüger, Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Lamont Lindstrom, Karen Nero, Ton Otto, Anne Salmond, Serge Tcherkézoff, Paul van der Grijp, Toon van Meijl.
Author : William H. Alkire
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Micronesia written by William H. Alkire and published by Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides the first overall survey of the peoples and cultures of Micronesia since the anthropological information explosion on the area began in the 1950s. It attempts to summarize these studies in a logical and coherent fashion. Ten island societies of Micronesia have been selected and discussed in some detail; these societies reflect a range of cultural adaptations to the varying microenvironments of the region. An attempt is made throughout to emphasize similarities in organizational patterns, where such exist, without losing sight of individuality."--Preface.
Author : Robert C. Kiste
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824820176
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book American Anthropology in Micronesia written by Robert C. Kiste and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself. Contributors analyze the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examine the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of socio-cultural anthropology. Although concentrating largely on disciplinary concerns, the authors consider the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was pursued mainly for its own sake. The focus then returns to applied concerns in more recent years and issues pertaining to the relevance of anthropology for the world of practical affairs. It will be of essential interest to students and scholars of Pacific Islands studies and the history of anthropology.
Author : David L. Hanlon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883918
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Upon a Stone Altar written by David L. Hanlon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.
Author : Donn T. Bayard
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Relationships of the Polynesian Outliers written by Donn T. Bayard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Meller
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883683
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Congress of Micronesia written by Norman Meller and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the western Pacific Ocean north of the equator, the far-flung islands of Micronesia extend across an area as large as that of the United States. Most of this area is administered by the United States as a trusteeship granted by the United Nations after World War II. Having been governed in turn by three other world powers— Spain, Germany, and Japan— the 91,000 Micronesian inhabitants are now at last in the process of working out their own political future. This book, a thorough, scholarly study of the development of the legislative process in the Trust Territory, focuses on the Congress of Micronesia, the legislature destined to carry the burden of the political development in the Territory. It examines institution-building over a period of two decades, describing how American forms and processes have been modified to fit the indigenous cultures of Micronesia, and how these cultures have accommodated to them. It also treats the impact of institutional change upon the role of indigenous leadership, highlighting the emergence of Micronesian leaders most capable of participating in the new political system. Here are detailed the day by day negotiations to set up a district legislature between the spokesmen for aboriginal Yap (of stone money fame) and the chiefs of the island empire which once paid it tribute. Here is described what happens when the U.S. Supreme Court’s “one man, one vote” formula is applied to people yet learning how to vote. The United States today has no defined policy for the eventual status of her Pacific island possessions. The future of Guam and American Samoa remains unclear. But the legislators of the Trust Territory have acted for the people they represent. Their adopted legislative institution will be central in determining whether or not the Trust Territory will become fully self-governing and independent.
Author : Ethan E. Cochrane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199925070
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Ethan E. Cochrane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Micronesian Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Flores
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824877381
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia written by Evelyn Flores and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding—and distinctly Micronesian—voice. With over two thousand islands spread across almost three million square miles of the Pacific Ocean, Micronesia and its peoples have too often been rendered invisible and insignificant both in and out of academia. This long-awaited anthology of contemporary indigenous literature will reshape Micronesia’s historical and literary landscape. Presenting over seventy authors and one hundred pieces, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia features nine of the thirteen basic language groups, including Palauan, Chamorro, Chuukese, I-Kiribati, Kosraean, Marshallese, Nauruan, Pohnpeian, and Yapese. The volume editors, from Micronesia themselves, have selected representative works from throughout the region—from Palau in the west, to Kiribati in the east, to the global diaspora. They have reached back for historically groundbreaking work and scouted the present for some of the most cited and provocative of published pieces and for the most promising new authors. Richly diverse, the stories of Micronesia’s resilient peoples are as vast as the sea and as deep as the Mariana Trench. Challenging centuries-old reductive representations, writers passionately explore seven complex themes: “Origins” explores creation, foundational, and ancestral stories; “Resistance” responds to colonialism and militarism; “Remembering” captures diverse memories and experiences; “Identities” articulates the nuances of culture; “Voyages” maps migration and diaspora; “Family” delves into interpersonal and community relationships; and “New Micronesia” gathers experimental, liminal, and cutting-edge voices. This anthology reflects a worldview unique to the islands of Micronesia, yet it also connects to broader issues facing Pacific Islanders and indigenous peoples throughout the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Pacific, indigenous, diasporic, postcolonial, and environmental studies and literatures.
Author : Stephen C. Woodworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Navigating the Micronesian Culture Area written by Stephen C. Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Hempenstall
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1921934328
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Pacific Islanders Under German Rule written by Peter J. Hempenstall and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Public Health Service Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book External Research List written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Pacific Commission
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Total Pages : 944 pages
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Download or read book Technical Papers written by South Pacific Commission and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
