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The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family
violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of
Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence
in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the
conflict dynamics generated by these transformations. The
contributors draw from detailed case studies in a range of Pacific
territories to examine family violence in relation to the social,
economic and political situation of native populations as well as
individual, collective and institutional responses to the
development of violence within and upon the family. They focus on
vernacular understandings, conflicting social norms, the emergence
of different types of violent patterns, the impact of violence on
individuals and communities, and local attempts at mitigating or
combating it. Combining ethnographic expertise with engaged
scholarship, this volume offers a vivid account of ongoing social
change in Pacific Island societies and a crucial contribution to
the understanding of family violence as a social process, cultural
construct, and political issue. This book will appeal to scholars
with interests in the sociology of violence and the family, Pacific
studies, development studies, and the social and cultural
anthropology of Oceania.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
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