Transpacific Americas: Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780367871550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Eveline Durr; Philipp Schorch

Opis

This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. By approaching the Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space, the book complicates the Euro-American distinction between "centre" and "rim," and provides a comprehensive understanding of recent dynamics and shifting relatio

Spis treści

Transpacific Americas as Relational Space  Philipp Schorch and Eveline Dürr  Part 1: Assembling Transpacific Networks and Relations  1. Historicising the "Indigenous International": Museums, Anthropology, and Transpacific Networks  Conal McCarthy  2. Performing Transpacific Identities: The Role of Music and Musicians in Interactions Between Easter Island and Chile  Dan Bendrups  3. Shadowed Lives: Invisibility and Visibility of Mexicans in Hawai’i  Monisha Das Gupta  4. Border Crossings and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Touring Exhibition: An Aotearoa New Zealand – Mexico Exchange  Lee Davidson  Part 2: Assembling Transpacific Concepts and Ideas  5. Transpacific Discourses of Primitivism and Extinction on "Fuegians" and "Tasmanians" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century  Fernanda Peñaloza  6. Re-assembling Language in Nests: Transpacific Indigenous Strategies for Cultural Revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Mexico  Eveline Dürr  7. Disjunctive Policy Assemblages: The New Zealand Model of Welfare Reform in Alberta, Canada  Catherine Kingfisher  8. Tangled up in Food: The Moral Economy of Food Politics in the Transpacific Region Alan Smart and Josephine Smart  Taualuga: Decolonising and Globalising the Pacific  Vilsoni Hereniko

O autorze

Eveline Dürr is a Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Philipp Schorch is a Marie Curie Fellow (European Commission) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.