The Melanesian World

ISBN-13: 9780367730673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 612 str.

Eric Hirsch; Will Rollason

Opis

This comprehensive volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form Melanesia. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the challenge of Melanesia  PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT  2. The archaeology of Melanesia  3. Melanesia: a region and a history  4. Missionaries in the Melanesian World  PART TWO: GEOPOLITICAL, LINGUISTIC AND REGIONAL OVERVIEWS  5. Geo-Political Overview of Melanesia  6. Melanesia as a zone of language diversity  7. Regional Overview: From Diversity to Multiple Singularities PART THREE:  ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOOD  8. Subsistence food production in Melanesia  9. Class, Labour, and Consumption in Urban Melanesia  10. Money Schemes in Contemporary Melanesia  11. Cash Crops and Markets  12. Searching for Melanesian Urbanity  PART FOUR: GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS  13. Sovereignty, Civil Conflict and Ethnicity  14. Local Government and Politics: Forms and Aspects of Authority  15. Security Governance in Melanesia - Police, Prisons and Crime  16. Gender Relations and Human Rights in Melanesia  17. Health, Institutions and Governance in Melanesia  18. Owning the Law in Melanesia  PART FIVE: RELIGION, CHURCH, RITUAL AND EXCHANGE PRACTICES  19. ‘Witchcraft’ and ‘Sorcery’ in Melanesia  20. Charismatic Churches, Revivalism and New Religious Movements  21. Cargo Cult Post Mortem  22. Big men, ceremonial exchange and lifecycle events  23. Interpreting initiation in Melanesia: Past and present  PART SIX: ART, MATERIAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE  24. Museums and Cultural Centres in Melanesia: a series of experiments  25. Creation and Destruction in Melanesian Material Culture  26. Contemporary Art in Melanesia. From Grass Roots to National Identity?  27. Melanesian worlds of music and dance  28. The Melanesian World of Paradise Tourism: Reflections on time, travel and cultural performance  PART SEVEN: DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES 29. Places and Paths in Melanesian Landscapes  30. Extractive Industries in Melanesia  31. Climate Change in the Islands and the Highlands: Melanesian Manifestations, Experiences and Actions  32. Western conservation in Melanesia: Biodiversity conservation for whom, by whom, and according to whom?  33. New Media, New Melanesia?  Afterword

O autorze

Eric Hirsch is a Reader in Anthropology at Brunel University London, UK. He has a long-standing interest in the ethnography and history of Papua New Guinea.

Will Rollason is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London, UK. His research to date has focused on Papua New Guinea and Rwanda.