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Summary:

The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of ceremonial exchanges in a market economy, and so forth. Each chapter presents a society seen from a specific point of view, but always with reference to the issue of collective identity and its confrontation with history and change. The collection thus invites the reader to understand how the inhabitants of these societies seek to affirm both an individual identity and a sense of belonging to the contemporary world. In doing so, it informs the reader about the contemporary realities experienced by the inhabitants of the South Pacific, with a view to contributing to an intercultural dialogue between the reader and these inhabitants.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The cargo will not come ...
• Aspects and Stages of the Westernisation of a Tribal Society / Maurice Godelier
• 'My poor border dwellers' (Yafar 1970-1995) / Bernard Juillerat
• Men's Houses, Other People's Houses / Philippe Peltier
• Cargo cult or sin cult? A Melanesian rite to better God / Monique Jeudy-Ballini
• Human Sacrifice and Cargo Cult in New Ireland / Brigitte Derlon
• In Australia, it's 'Aboriginal' with a capital 'A' / Barbara Glowczewski
• 'Mipela wan bilas' / Pierre Lemonnier
• Why should everyone have a different name? / Pascale Bonnemère
• Of atolls and gardens / Jean-Michel Chazine
• Food and Wealth / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
• Identity at stake in the present-day Kingdom of Tonga / Marie-Claire Bataille and Georges Benguigui
• Culture, nation, society / Serge Tcherkézoff.

Contributors:

Tcherkézoff, Serge

Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Translated from the French.

Main Work:

Pacifique-Sud aujourd'hui : identités et transformations culturelles (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Changing South Pacific : identities and transformations (Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, ©2008 — ISBN 9781921536144)

Subjects:

Ethnology — Oceania

Oceania — Politics and government

Ethnology

Politics and government

Pacific Ocean — Islands of the Pacific

Oceania

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DU28 .P335 2008eb

ISBNs:

9781921536151 (electronic bk.)
1921536152 (electronic bk.)
1921536144
9781921536144
9781921536144 (print version) [Invalid]
1921536152 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

298611703