"This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes's Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources." --American Anthropologist Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 14 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i
"This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes's Words of the Lagoon: Fishing ...
This collection recognizes cultural heritage as a ground for creativity and experimentation with social forms and pinpoints both the conflicting values at play and their potentially subversive power in Hawaii, Tahiti, Pohnpei, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
This collection recognizes cultural heritage as a ground for creativity and experimentation with social forms and pinpoints both the conflicting value...
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that...
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that s...
Pacific Alternatives provides fresh perspectives on the ways cultural heritage serves to engage the modern state and global non-state actors. It showcases the strongest features of contemporary Pacific Studies: new insights in analyses of Islander life, and Indigenous voices in dialogue on land, politics, culture, tradition, custom, and identity.
Pacific Alternatives provides fresh perspectives on the ways cultural heritage serves to engage the modern state and global non-state actors. It showc...
