| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 221 pages) |
| Series |
Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for Oceanists ; volume 3 |
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Pacific perspectives ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
Introduction : movement, place-making and cultural identification : multiplicities of belonging / Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann -- Culture as experience : constructing identities through cross-cultural encounters / Eveline Dürr -- 'Forty plus different tribes' : displacement, place-making and aboriginal tribal names on Palm Island, Australia / Lise Garond -- Coconuts and the landscape of underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea / Will Rollason -- Invisible villages in the city : Niuean constructions of place and identity in Auckland / Hilke Thode-Arora -- Migration and identity : Cook Islanders' relation to land / Arno Pascht -- Protestantism among the Pacific peoples in New Zealand : mobility, cultural identifications, and generational shifts / Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Identity and belonging in cross-cultural friendship : Maori and Pakeha experiences / Agnes Brandt -- Epilogue : uncertain futures of belonging : consequences of climate change and sea-level rise in Oceania / Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann |
| Summary |
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to ""belong"" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings-and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications-are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of clima |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Oceania -- Case studies
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Group identity -- Oceania -- Case studies
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Intergroup relations -- Oceania -- Case studies
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- Oceania -- Case studies
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Place (Philosophy) -- Case studies
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Ethnology
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Group identity
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Intergroup relations
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Place (Philosophy)
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Oceania
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hermann, Elfriede, editor.
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Kempf, Wolfgang (Anthropologist), editor.
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Meijl, Toon van, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782384168 |
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1782384162 |
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