Made in Oceania: Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1907774114 ISBN 13: 9781907774119

Verlag: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2011

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...an important contribution to the critical analysis of the intersection of cultural heritage, social movements and the state in Oceania...The book presents a series of fascination ethnographically grounded examples exploring the extent to which ideas or concepts of cultural heritage have not only served as templates for Oceanic people throughout their colonial and postcolonial histories, but also how these remain central to local and supra-local forms of political innovation. --Alison Dundon, University of Adelaide,The Australian Journal of Anthropology

Ethnographic examples...provide ample evidence for the editors provocative claim that rather than a Pacific region comprised of independent states without nations , formations of nationalism orientated around cultural heritage may lead to alternative ways of state-making: nations without states . Made in Oceania enriches existing debates about cultural heritage, social movements, and nation- and state-making through its emphasis on the unique means by which cultural heritage works : rather than using the language or apparatuses of the state, cultural heritage expresses itself on a different level by evoking emotional responses of belonging Collectively, the essays in this volume suggest a new approach to thinking about the potential of Pacific cultural heritage movements to affect political change. It is an important contribution the anthropology of cultural heritage (in the Pacific and elsewhere), to Pacific ethnography, and to the anthropology of nationalism and state-making. In an ideal world it would be read not just by practitioners and students of anthropology, but by policy-makers and development workers as well. --Anthropological Forum, Maggie Cumming, University of Toronto

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Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making, and a potent mobilizing force in diverse grassroots social movements, many of which have been misunderstood as 'cargo-cults' or 'inventions of tradition' in anthropological analyses. This collection recognizes cultural heritage as a ground for creativity and experimentation with social forms, and pin-points both the conflicting values at play and their potentially subversive power. Describing key social processes in Hawaii, Tahiti, Pohnpei, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Australia, it explores alternative ways of configuring authority and organizing the state, as well as highlighting the potential in local social movements to influence culture and politics at the national level. Taking the pulse of important contemporary social movements in the region, this volume is key for understanding the development of the modern nation-state in the Pacific.

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• Verlag: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907774114
• ISBN 13: 9781907774119
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
• Herausgeber: Hviding Edvard, Rio Knut M.