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Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: International and Cultural Psychology
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This volume is the product of an international gathering of
scholars and
healthprofessionalsinHonolulu,Hawaii,forthespeci?cpurposeofdo-
menting and understanding the wide-ranging psychosocial
consequences of rapid social change among people of Paci?c Island
nations. In the wide expanse of the Paci?c Ocean, there are scores
of nations and an untold number of cultural traditions. This area
has been the scene of rapid social change since the Paci?c Island
people began contact with the Western and Eastern worlds through
exploration, commerce, and religious mission- ies. These changes
led to the collapse and decimation of many groups as
challengestotraditionalwaysoflifesoonexceededtheircapacitytoendure
and survive. Today, from Australia's Aboriginal peoples in the
South to the Hawaii's Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) people in the
North, there is a resurgence of cultural pride and efforts to renew
ties with past. From Po- nesia (e. g. , Hawaii, Samoa) to
Micronesia (e. g. , Chuuk, Pohnpei, Palau) to Melanesia (e. g. ,
Solomon Islands, New Guinea), the indigenous p- ple of the Paci?c
are continuing their struggle to survive amidst a rapidly
changingworldinwhichbasicandfundamentalvaluesandlifestyles? nd
themselvesincon?ictwithwaysoflifethatemphasizealienvaluessuchas
individuality, materialism, competition, and change. These words
are not meant to idealize the traditional cultures of the Paci?c
Island people for they have often been characterized by aggression,
hostility, and destr- tion of one another in the course of their
history. Yet, it is clear that never
hastherebeensuchsomanyandsopotentexternalforceschallengingtheir
existence. Westernization can now be found throughout the Paci?c
Islands with the exception of a few isolated regions in Melanesia
and Micronesia.
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