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In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated
over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly
disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to
observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also
being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about
nature, plants and animals is vanishing. However, in parallel with
this, the people of the Pacific are confronted with new modes of
knowledge and newly introduced technologies through imported
educational systems, missions of various denominations, and the
media. They do not passively assimilate this knowledge but adopt,
adapt, and apply it in a syncretistic way.These changes will have
permanent effects on the individual lives of people in the region
and their knowledge about themselves and their surrounding 'world'.
This stimulating book tracks the course of these developments and
offers revealing insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples'
responses to the process of globalization.
In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated
over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly
disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to
observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also
being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about
nature, plants and animals is vanishing.
However, in parallel with this, the people of the Pacific are
confronted with new modes of knowledge and newly introduced
technologies through imported educational systems, missions of
various denominations, and the media. They do not passively
assimilate this knowledge but adopt, adapt, and apply it in a
syncretistic way.
These changes will have permanent effects on the individual lives
of people in the region and their knowledge about themselves and
their surrounding 'world'. This stimulating book tracks the course
of these developments and offers revealing insights into the
complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of
globalization.
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