TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tcherkezoff, Serge
AU  - Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise
AB  - The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of ceremonial exchanges in a market economy, and so forth. Each chapter presents a society seen from a specific point of view, but always with reference to the issue of collective identity and its confrontation with history and change. The collection thus invites the reader to understand how the inhabitants of these societies seek to affirm both an individual identity and a sense of belonging to the contemporary world. In doing so, it informs the reader about the contemporary realities experienced by the inhabitants of the South Pacific, with a view to contributing to an intercultural dialogue between the reader and these inhabitants.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458843
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458843
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 298611703
KW  - politics and government
KW  - oceania
KW  - south pacific
KW  - ethnology
KW  - anthropology
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Anga
KW  - Baruya people
KW  - Fa'amatai
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Samoa
KW  - Tonga
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/18da7012-80f3-4946-a95a-a9d1e802a2d6/458843.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33800
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2008
SN  - 9781921536151
TI  - Changing South-Pacific : Identities and Transformations
ER  - 
