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Focusing on the era of "first encounters" in Polynesia, this book
provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between
indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The
case studies chosen enable comparison of New Zealand Maori-European
transactions with similar Pacific ones. The book examines the
conflict situations that arose and the reasons for physical
violence, highlighting the roles of honour, mana, and agency.
Drawing on a range of archival materials, sailor and missionary
journals, as well as indigenous narratives, Wilkes applies an
analytical method typically used for examining much more recent
conflict. She compares different ways of "seeing" and "knowing" the
world and reflects on the reasons for poor decision-making amongst
all the social actors involved. The evidence presented in the book
strongly suggests that preventing violence - promoting and
negotiating peace - happens most effectively when mana and honour
are acknowledged between parties.
Focusing on the era of "first encounters" in Polynesia, this book
provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between
indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The
case studies chosen enable comparison of New Zealand Maori-European
transactions with similar Pacific ones. The book examines the
conflict situations that arose and the reasons for physical
violence, highlighting the roles of honour, mana, and agency.
Drawing on a range of archival materials, sailor and missionary
journals, as well as indigenous narratives, Wilkes applies an
analytical method typically used for examining much more recent
conflict. She compares different ways of "seeing" and "knowing" the
world and reflects on the reasons for poor decision-making amongst
all the social actors involved. The evidence presented in the book
strongly suggests that preventing violence - promoting and
negotiating peace - happens most effectively when mana and honour
are acknowledged between parties.
More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by
government departments, companies or as observers of development
processes in their field areas generally. Although these roles can
be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the
anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities
are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them.
This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues,
debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles. The geographic focus
of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its
importance apply widely through the world, for example, Africa,
South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in
relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the
authors have first-hand experience and they address these new
pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research. The
book's chapters are written in a way that combines scholarship with
a style accessible to general readers.
Pam spent her twenties pursuing how to live honestly and
purposefully by challenging herself beyond her comfort zone. Now,
in her thirties, she writes about the experiences that had the
greatest impacts on her while exploring what it is to be one type
of woman searching for Truth in a very distracted world. Each
piece, though varying in length, seriousness and subject matter,
delves into the lessons she's uncovered. Whether she's writing
about the year she lived in her car, what happened after she shaved
her head, or choosing to be single, each essay comes back to one
question: what is really valuable in this life?
The battle for men's souls is intensifying in these last days, and
there is a growing urgency that we no longer walk by our feelings,
but by faith in the sure testimony of the Word of God. From the
Garden of Eden until now, Satan has mingled truth with a lie: "Hath
God said?" Knowing that deception is an end time sign, we must seek
now, more than ever, to know the truth in order to expose his lies.
The Immaculate Deception first challenges readers to lay aside the
doctrines and traditions of the Catholic Church and begin to
question their salvation by no other source than is revealed in the
Word of God. Secondly, the book reveals the truth surrounding Mary,
the Blessed Virgin and Mother of Jesus, who is being used by Satan
to attack the Catholic Church in these last days. The Author's
ministry spans fourteen years of teaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ in prisons, missions and jails in Arkansas and Tennessee.
She graduated Bible College from Forward Ministries - Global
Ministries and Relief, Dr. Leon Van Rooyan, and is a member of
Church of the Harvest. She has been a guest speaker on Christian
radio, and has spoken to women's groups and churches in Tennessee.
More importantly, her passion is for winning souls, and this book
is an extension of that outreach to win souls in the Catholic
Church.
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