Pacific Futures - Projects, Politics and Interests (Hardcover)

The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
Release date:	July 2014
Editors:	Will Rollason
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-78238-350-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78238-350-6
Barcode:	9781782383505

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