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The destruction of local identity through the relentless
encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global
phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western
hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent
cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations,
tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights
and titles, particularly in Australia.
This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of
great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills
an important gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region
and confidently navigates what had previously been considered
uncharted, even unchartable, waters -- that wide sea between the
classic ethnography of Oceania and contemporary anthropology's
theoretical concerns with global relations and transnational
cultures. Its breadth, rigour, and timely contribution to
post-colonial politics in Oceania are certain to ensure that this
book will provide an enduring contribution to the field.
The destruction of local identity through the relentless
encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global
phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western
hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent
cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations,
tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights
and titles, particularly in Australia.This book, based on extensive
fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the
Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing
ethnographic literature on the region and confidently navigates
what had previously been considered uncharted, even unchartable,
waters -- that wide sea between the classic ethnography of Oceania
and contemporary anthropology's theoretical concerns with global
relations and transnational cultures. Its breadth, rigour, and
timely contribution to post-colonial politics in Oceania are
certain to ensure that this book will provide an enduring
contribution to the field.
The many different localities of the Pacific region have a long
history of transformation, under both pre- and post-colonial
conditions. More recently, rates of local transformation have
increased tremendously under post-colonial regimes. The forces of
globalization, which rapidly distribute commodities, images, and
political and moral concepts across the region, have presented
Pacific populations with an unprecedented need and opportunity to
fashion new and expanded understandings of their cultural and
individual identities. This volume, the first in a new series,
examines the forces of globalization at different levels, as they
manifest themselves and operate across cultural, cognitive and
biographical dimensions of human life in the Pacific. While posing
familiar questions, it offers new answers through the integration
of cultural and psychological methods. The contributors draw on
practice theory, cognitive science and the anthropology of space
and place while exploring the key analytical rubrics of human
agency, memory and landscape.
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