The Other Side

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833023
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Side by : John Patrick Taylor

Download or read book The Other Side written by John Patrick Taylor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu’s first prime minister. Exploring Raga social, spatial, and historical consciousness, this richly poetic account provides important theoretical contributions to ongoing debates in Pacific anthropology about the relation between structure and history, and place and time. It reveals important insights into the convergence of indigenous and exogenous cosmologies and hegemonies historically, and shows how these are implicated in contemporary social, ritual, and material cultural expressions. These analyses engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia. The Other Side combines original and substantial ethnography with sophisticated theoretical reflection that will appeal broadly across the field of anthropology. It will also be of considerable value to scholars of Pacific and Melanesian history, politics, and society. The clear writing and entertaining narrative combine to create a work that is accessible to a wide audience. The volume’s critical and reflective analysis of anthropological research makes it a valuable teaching aid in courses that focus on ethnographic methods and writing. Students in Pacific anthropology will find it especially useful.37

Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land

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Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192094270X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land by : Thomas Reuter

Download or read book Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land written by Thomas Reuter and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.

The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916543
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life by : Andrew Ross

Download or read book The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life written by Andrew Ross and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, the most powerful voices on the planetâe"heads of state, corporations, global economistsâe"are speaking in the name of environmentalism.

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786522
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing by : Peter Hulme

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing written by Peter Hulme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Scope of Anthropology

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453319
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Book Synopsis The Scope of Anthropology by : Laurent Dousset

Download or read book The Scope of Anthropology written by Laurent Dousset and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.

Historical Dictionary of Polynesia

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810867729
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Polynesia by : Robert D. Craig

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Polynesia written by Robert D. Craig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast. Thousands of islands are scattered throughout this area, most of which are currently included in one of the modern island states of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Polynesia greatly expands on the previous editions through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Polynesian history from the earliest times to the present. Appendixes of the major islands and atolls within Polynesia, the rulers and administrators of the 13 major island states, and basic demographic information of those states are also included.

Generation's End

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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159797580X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Book Synopsis Generation's End by : Scott L. Malcomson

Download or read book Generation's End written by Scott L. Malcomson and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the war on terrorism as seen from the New York Times 's op-ed desk.

American Pacificism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134264143
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis American Pacificism by : Paul Lyons

Download or read book American Pacificism written by Paul Lyons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around ‘orientalism’ for an Oceanian context. Paul Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined in the American imagination. On the one hand, the Pacific islands are seen as economic and geopolitical ‘stepping stones’, rather than ends in themselves, whilst on the other they are viewed as ends of the earth or ‘cultural limits’, unencumbered by notions of sin, antitheses to the industrial worlds of economic and political modernity. However, both conceptions obscure not only Islander cultures, but also innovative responses to incursion. The islands instead emerge in relation to American national identity, as places for scientific discovery, soul-saving and civilizing missions, manhood-testing adventure, nuclear testing and eroticized furloughs between maritime work and warfare. Ranging from first contact and the colonial archive through to postcolonialism and global tourism, this thought-provoking volume draws upon a wide, rewarding collection of literary works, historical and cultural scholarship, government documents and tourist literature.

The Oceanic Languages

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0700711287
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oceanic Languages by : John Lynch

Download or read book The Oceanic Languages written by John Lynch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

The Pacific Islands and the USA

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Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820201163
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pacific Islands and the USA by : R. G. Crocombe

Download or read book The Pacific Islands and the USA written by R. G. Crocombe and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world's most powerful nation, and more than a dozen of the world's smallest, have been interacting for 200 years. Beginning with whaling in the 1700's, it has continued through many trades, investment, eduction, churches, media, diplomacy and strategic issues. As significant as the movement of Americans to the Pacific is that of 150,000 Pacific Islanders to the USA. This important book documents the growing interaction with the USA to the pinnacle of involvement in World War II. The importance of USA to the Pacific Islands remained high until the end of the 1980's but has declined since then on almost every dimension. While USA will remain significant for the Pacific Islands, its relative profile will continue to decline." -- Back cover.

Empire's Edge

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840986
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire's Edge by : Scott L. Malcolmson

Download or read book Empire's Edge written by Scott L. Malcolmson and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995-10-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This travel book explores the forgotten countries on the edge of the new Europe—Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Uzbekistan. Mixing anecdote and reportage with history and legend, Malcomson teases out the long-running tensions between nation and empire, whether Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman or European. By the author of Tutarani: A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands.

One Drop of Blood

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142993607X
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis One Drop of Blood by : Scott Malcomson

Download or read book One Drop of Blood written by Scott Malcomson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-10-04 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and original retelling of the story of race in America Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? This question is the starting point for Scott Malcomson's riveting and deeply researched account, which amplifies history with memoir and reportage. From the beginning, Malcomson shows, a nation obsessed with invention began to create a new idea of race, investing it with unprecedented moral and social meaning. A succession of visionaries and opportunists, self-promoters and would-be reformers carried on the process, helping to define "black," "white," and "Indian" in opposition to one another, and in service to the aspirations and anxieties of each era. But the people who had to live within those definitions found them constraining. They sought to escape the limits of race imposed by escaping from other races or by controlling, confining, eliminating, or absorbing them, in a sad, absurd parade of events. Such efforts have never truly succeeded, yet their legacy haunts us, as we unhappily re-enact the drama of separatism in our schools, workplaces, and communities. By not only recounting the shared American tragicomedy of race but helping us to own, even to embrace it, this important book offers us a way at last to move beyond it.

Cosmopolitics

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630684
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmopolitics by : Pheng Cheah

Download or read book Cosmopolitics written by Pheng Cheah and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent contributors look at the present and future of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism. Nationalism and the nation-state have recently come under siege, their political dominance gradually eroding under the strain of such forces as ethnic strife, religious fundamentalism, homogenizing global capitalism, and the unprecedented movements of people and populations across cultures, countries, even cyberspace. A resurgent cosmopolitanism has emerged as a viable and alternative political project. In Cosmopolitics, a renowned group of scholars and political theorists offers the first sustained examination of that project, its inclusive and often universalist claims, and its tangled and sometimes volatile relationship to nationalism. Understood generally as a fundamental commitment to the interests of humanity, traditional cosmopolitanism has been criticized as a privileged position, an aloof detachment from the obligations and affiliations that constrain nation-bound lives and move people to political action. Yet, as these essays make clear, contemporary cosmopolitanism arises not from a disengagement, but rather from well-defined cultural, historical, and political contexts. The contributors explore a feasible cosmopolitanism now beginning to emerge, and consider the question of whether it can or will displace nationalism, which needs to be rethought rather than dismissed as obsolete. Intellectually provocative and erudite, this interdisciplinary volume presents a diverse array of critical perspectives, assessing both the ideal enterprise and the current realities of the rapidly developing cosmopolitical movement.

The General’s Goose

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Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461288
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis The General’s Goose by : Robbie Robertson

Download or read book The General’s Goose written by Robbie Robertson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His admirers said he was a charismatic leader with a dazzling smile, a commoner following an ancient tradition of warrior service on behalf of an indigenous people who feared marginalisation at the hands of ungrateful immigrants. One tourist pleaded with him to stage a coup in her backyard; in private parties around the capital, Suva, infatuated women whispered ‘coup me baby’ in his presence. It was so easy to overlook the enormity of what he had done in planning and implementing Fiji’s first military coup, to be seduced by celebrity, captivated by the excitement of the moment, and plead its inevitability as the final eruption of long-simmering indigenous discontent. A generation would pass before the consequences of the actions of Fiji’s strongman of 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka, would be fully appreciated but, by then, the die had been well and truly cast. The major general did not live happily ever after. No nirvana followed the assertion of indigenous rights. If anything, misadventure became his country’s most enduring contemporary trait. This is Fiji’s very human story.

Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027206767
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology by : Claire Lefebvre

Download or read book Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology written by Claire Lefebvre and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class."

The Five Hundred Year Rebellion

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Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353476
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Five Hundred Year Rebellion written by Benjamin Dangl and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a social and political struggle that would change the country forever. As part of that project activists took control of their own history, starting in the 1960s by reaching back to oral traditions and then forward to new forms of print and broadcast media. This book tells the fascinating story of how indigenous Bolivians recovered and popularized histories of past rebellions, political models, and leaders, using them to build movements for rights, land, autonomy, and political power. Drawing from rich archival sources and the author’s lively interviews with indigenous leaders and activist-historians, The Five Hundred Year Rebellion describes how movements tapped into centuries-old veins of oral history and memory to produce manifestos, booklets, and radio programs on histories of resistance, wielding them as tools to expand their struggles and radically transform society.

Oceanic Encounters

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Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536292
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Oceanic Encounters by : Margaret Jolly

Download or read book Oceanic Encounters written by Margaret Jolly and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.