Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific write by Martha Macintyre. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven—all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access to global markets would provide the means to improve their standard of living, allowing them to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific takes a broad sweep through contemporary topics in Melanesian anthropology and ethnography. With nuanced and rigorous scholarship, it views contemporary debate on modernity in Melanesia within the context of the global economy and cultural capitalism. In particular, contributors assess local ideas about wealth, success, speculation, and development and their connections to participation in institutions and activities generated by them. This innovative and accessible collection offers a new intersection between Western Pacific anthropology and global studies.
Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific
Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific write by . This book was released on 2011. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Melanesian World
The Melanesian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Melanesian World write by Eric Hirsch. This book was released on 2019-03-28. The Melanesian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
Touring Pacific Cultures
Touring Pacific Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touring Pacific Cultures write by Kalissa Alexeyeff. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Touring Pacific Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism to the visual, material and performed cultures of the Pacific region. In this volume, we propose to explore new directions in understanding how culture is defined, produced, experienced and sustained through tourism-related practices across that region. We ask, how is cultural value, ownership, performance and commodification negotiated and experienced in actual lived practice as it moves with people across the Pacific? ‘This collection is a welcome addition to tourism studies, or perhaps we should say post- or para-tourism. The essays bring out many facets and experiences too quickly bundled under a single label and focused exclusively on “destinations” visited by “outsiders”. Tourism, we see here, actively involves many different populations, societies, and economies, a range of local/global/regional engagements that can be both destructive and creative. Western outsiders aren’t the only ones on the move. Unequal power, (neo)colonial exploitation and capitalist commodification are very much part of the picture. But so are desire, adventure, pleasure, cultural reinvention and economic development. The effect, overall, is an attitude of alert, critical ambivalence with respect to a proliferating historical phenomenon. A bumpy and rewarding ride.’ — James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific write by R. Feinberg. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
