Description:The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as OCycustomOCO, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worseOCooutdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests: Projects, Politics and Interests. To get started finding Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests: Projects, Politics and Interests, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
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Release
2014
ISBN
1782383514
Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests: Projects, Politics and Interests
Description: The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as OCycustomOCO, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worseOCooutdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests: Projects, Politics and Interests. To get started finding Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests: Projects, Politics and Interests, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.