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Title Tides of Innovation in Oceania : Value, materiality and place / edited by Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone and Anna Paini.

Imprint Acton, Australia Australian National University, [2017]

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Series Monographs in Anthropology
Monographs in anthropology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue : Where is anthropology located in the task of putting people first? -- Introduction : tides of innovation in Oceania -- Part One. Mapping materiality in time and place -- Alterity and autochthony : Austronesian cosmographies of the marvellous -- Moving objects : reflections on Oceanic collections -- Kanak engraved bamboos : stories of the past, stories of the present -- Re-dressing materiality: robes mission from 'colonial' to 'cultural' object, and entrepreneurship of Kanak women in Lifou -- Part Two. Value and agency : local experiences in expanded Narratives -- Kanak women on the move in contemporary New Caledonia -- A fat sow Named Skulfi: 'expensive' words in Dobu Island society -- Development, tourism and commodification of cultures in Vanuatu -- Diversification of foods and their values : Pacific foodscapes -- The innovation of tradition : reflections on the ebb and flow of heritage regimes in Fiji -- Epilogue.
Summary Tides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau'ofa's vision of the Pacific as a 'Sea of Islands'; the image of tides recalls the cyclical movement of waves, with its unpredictable consequences. The authors propose tides of innovation as a fluid concept, unbound and open to many directions. This perspective is explored through ethnographic case studies centred on deeply elaborated analyses of locally inflected agencies involved in different transforming contexts. Three interwoven themes - value, materiality and place - provide a common thread.
Language English.
Subject Hau‘ofa, Epeli -- Influence.
Hau‘ofa, Epeli
Ethnology -- Oceania.
Oceania -- Social conditions.
Oceania -- Economic conditions.
Ethnologie -- Océanie.
Océanie -- Conditions sociales.
Océanie -- Conditions économiques.
Anthropology.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Oceania.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic history
Ethnology
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social conditions
Oceania https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfGXyKwjqFR47VVfYDpfq
Indexed Term Australian
Added Author Gnecchi-Ruscone, Elisabetta, editor.
Paini, Anna, editor.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Gnecchi-Ruscone, Elisabetta. Tides of Innovation in Oceania : Value, materiality and place. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2017 9781760460921
ISBN 9781760460938 (online)
1760460931
9781760460921
1760460923
Standard No. 10.22459/TIO.04.2017 doi
AU@ 000058925861
AU@ 000060537562
AU@ 000060587938
GBVCP 1008667617

 
    
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