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Author : Lin Poyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : UOM:39015041723738
Author : Lin Poyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Taroa Island
ISBN : OCLC:1436385285
Author : Peter Rudiak-Gould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135055370
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. With grounds to dismiss or ignore the threat, Marshall Islanders have instead embraced it; with reasons to forswear guilt and responsibility, they have instead adopted in-group blame; and having been instructed that resettlement is necessary, they have vowed instead to retain the homeland. These dominant local responses can be understood as arising from a pre-existing, vigorous constellation of Marshallese ideas termed "modernity the trickster": a historically inspired narrative of self-inflicted cultural decline and seduction by Euro-American modernity. This study illuminates islander agency at the intersection of the local and the global, and suggests a theory of risk perception based on ideological commitment to narratives of historical progress and decline.
Author : Lin Poyer,Suzanne Falgout,Laurence Marshall Carucci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865139
World War II was a watershed event for the people of the former Japanese colonies of Micronesia. The Japanese military build-up, the conflict itself, and the American occupation and control of the conquered islands brought rapid and dramatic changes to Micronesian life. Whether they spent the war in caves and bomb shelters, in sweet potato fields under armed Japanese guard, or in their own homes, Micronesians who survived those years recognize that their peoples underwent a major historical transformation. Like a typhoon, the war swept away a former life. The Typhoon of War combines archival research and oral history culled from more than three hundred Micronesian survivors to offer a comparative history of the war in Micronesia. It is the first book to develop Islander perspectives on a topic still dominated by military histories that all but ignore the effects of wartime operations on indigenous populations. The authors explore the significant cultural meanings of the war for Island peoples, for the events of the war are the foundation on which Micronesians have constructed their modern view of themselves, their societies, and the wider world. Their recollections of those tumultuous years contain a wealth of detail about wartime activities, local conditions, and social change, making this an invaluable reference for anyone interested in twentieth-century Micronesia. Photographs, maps, and a detailed chronology will help readers situate Micronesian experiences within the broader context of the Pacific War.
Author : Suzanne Falgout,Lin Poyer,Laurence Marshall Carucci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824863586
Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Whether they spent the war in bomb shelters, in sweet potato fields under the guns of Japanese soldiers, or in their homes on atolls sheltered from the war, Micronesians who survived those years know that their peoples passed through a major historical transformation. Yet Pacific War histories scarcely mention the Islanders across whose lands and seas the fighting waged. Memories of War sets out to the fill that historical gap by presenting the missing voices of Micronesians and by viewing those years from their perspectives. The focus is on Micronesian remembrances—the ritual commemorations, features of the landscape, stories, dances, and songs that keep their memories of the conflict alive. The inclusion of numerous and extensive interviews and songs is an important feature of this book, allowing Micronesians to speak for themselves about their experiences. In addition, they also reveal distinctively Micronesian cultural memories of war. Memories of War preserves powerful and poignant memories for Micronesians; it also demonstrates to students of history and culture the extent to which cultural practices and values shape the remembrance of personal experience.
Author : Keith L. Camacho
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860318
In 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War’s impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive archival base of government, military, and popular records, Chamorro scholar Keith L Camacho traces the formation of divergent colonial and indigenous histories in the Mariana Islands, an archipelago located in the western Pacific and home to the Chamorro people. He shows that US colonial governance of Guam, the southernmost island, and that of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands created competing colonial histories that would later inform how Americans, Chamorros, and Japanese experienced and remembered the war and its aftermath. Central to this discussion is the American and Japanese administrative development of "loyalty" and "liberation" as concepts of social control, collective identity, and national belonging. Just how various Chamorros from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands negotiated their multiple identities and subjectivities is explored with respect to the processes of history and memory-making among this "Americanized" and "Japanized" Pacific Islander population. In addition, Camacho emphasizes the rise of war commemorations as sites for the study of American national historic landmarks, Chamorro Liberation Day festivities, and Japanese bone-collecting missions and peace pilgrimages. Ultimately, Cultures of Commemoration demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices.
Author : Lin Poyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : UOM:39015040863600
Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Pacific Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCSC:32106018409497
Author : Kirsten Hastrup,Martin Skrydstrup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415628587
Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change – including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation – the book shows how all attempts at modelling nature’s course are deeply social, and how current research in "climate" contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.
Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough,Hiroshi Sugita
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0871690144
This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into constituent elements. The Truk Dictionary Project was supported by the Nat. Science Found. (NSF), the Dept. of Ed. of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Univ. of Penna., & the Univ. of Hawaii. Illustration.
Author : William A Lessa,William Armand Lessa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520096150
Author : Gertrud Hüwelmeier,Kristine Krause
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135224158
Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world. Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses? The book’s contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement. Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134300761
Author : William Armand Lessa
Publisher : Berkeley, University of California Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000121028249
Author : Mark Osteen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136481437
The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.
