Change and Continuity in the Pacific (eBook, PDF)

Revisiting the Region
Redaktion: Connell, John; Lee, Helen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this book have all conducted long term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their field sites as well as observing elements of continuity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351743723
• Artikelnr.: 53367382

Autorenporträt

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has written books on migration and development issues, especially concerning Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia and urbanisation in the Third World. His last book was Islands at Risk (2013). Helen Lee is Professor of Anthropology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Since her first book, Becoming Tongan: an ethnography of childhood (1996), she has published widely on migration and transnationalism and on Tongan history and society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Returning to the Pacific
John Connell and Helen Lee 2. Engaging the World: Four Decades of Intensifying Change in Tuvalu
Anne Chambers and Keith S. Chambers 3. 'Olgeta Lapun I Dai Pinis' (All the Old Men Have Died): Fractured Modernities in Siwai
Papua New Guinea
John Connell 4. Surprising Times on Tanna (Vanuatu)
Lamont Lindstrom 5. Rescuing Hope and Possibility from Development on Atiu
Cook Islands?
Nick Lewis 6. Samoan Journeys: Migration
Remittances and Traditional Gift Exchange
Paul Shankman 7. An 'Infinite Pause' at Dreikikir? 40 Years of Change in Rural Papua New Guinea
Bryant Allen 8. Becoming Tongan Today
Helen Lee 9. The Future of a Polynesian Chiefdom in a Globalising World: Anuta
Solomon Islands
Richard Feinberg 10. Shifting Traditions: Remaining Pollapese in Micronesia and Abroad
Juliana Flinn 11. Revisiting the Fijian Periphery: A Thirty Year Perspective on Kadavu Island
Michael Sofer 12. Power and Predictability: Constrained Social Change in Enewetak/Ujelang
Marshall Islands
Laurence Marshall Carucci