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Pacific Places, Pacific Histories (Hardcover, New)
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Pacific Places, Pacific Histories (Hardcover, New)
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Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them
physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality,
perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places
and how our engagement with them-complex, changing, and
varied-forms and transforms our understanding of them, of
ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific
History brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars
and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and
to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a
veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each
other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with
places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational
movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global
capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions
about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The
essays presented here are about letting go, learning and
un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual
boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive
voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute
significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast
ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.
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