Oceania

by Strathern, Andrew; Stewart, Pamela J.; Carucci, Laurence M.; Poyer, Lin; Feinberg, Richard; Macpherson, Cluny

• ISBN13: 9780890894446
• ISBN10: 0890894442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-24
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Table of Contents

Introduction
Pamela J. Stewart
Andrew Strathern
Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders	3	(4)
Acknowledgments	7	(1)
References	7	(4)
Part I
Andrew Strathern
Pamela J. Stewart
The South-West Pacific	11	(90)
Fiji	15	(6)
Chiefship and Political Change in Fiji	15	(3)
Medicine and Morality in Fiji	18	(3)
New Caledonia	21	(4)
New Caledonia: Chiefship and Historical Change	22	(3)
Vanuatu	25	(4)
Status Acquisition in Vanuatu: Art and Power	26	(3)
The Solomon Islands	29	(11)
Land and Sea: Historical Changes in Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia	30	(3)
Exchange and Social Change on Choiseul Island	33	(4)
Christianity in the Solomon Islands (Kwara'ae)	37	(3)
New Guinea	40	(35)
The Asmat of Irian Jaya: Art and Its Changing Meanings	46	(3)
Sung Ballads from the Hagen and Duna Areas of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea	49	(3)
The Use of Natural Resources in Papua New Guinea	52	(2)
Agriculture and Change in the New Guinea Highlands	54	(4)
Warfare, Exchange, and Gender Relations in New Guinea	58	(6)
Ancestors and Christianity in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea	64	(2)
``Cargo Cults'' and Millenarian Movements as Objects of Study	66	(5)
Myth and Change (Duna, Papua New Guinea)	71	(2)
Medicine and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea	73	(2)
An Overview of Political Problems: The Legacies of Colonial and Post-Colonial Practices in the South-West Pacific	75	(4)
Photographs	79	(10)
References	89	(12)
Part II
Richard Feinberg
Cluny Macpherson
The ``Eastern Pacific''	101	(82)
Prehistory	106	(2)
Polynesian Seafaring	108	(6)
Subsistence and Expressive Arts	114	(3)
Central Themes in Polynesian Culture	117	(4)
Honor	117	(1)
Mana	118	(1)
Tapu	119	(1)
Aloha	119	(2)
Descent	121	(1)
European Contact	121	(9)
Contemporary Issues	130	(9)
The Maori of Aotearoa	131	(1)
European Contact	132	(2)
The Twentieth Century	134	(4)
Summary	138	(1)
Samoa	139	(8)
Prehistory	139	(3)
European Contact	142	(3)
Post-Independence	145	(2)
Looking toward the Future	147	(1)
Anuta	147	(6)
Economic and Religious Conflict	149	(2)
Rapprochement and Continuing Stress	151	(2)
Conclusion	153	(2)
Photographs	155	(10)
Acknowledgements	165	(1)
Notes	165	(2)
References	167	(16)
Part III
Laurence M. Carucci
Lin Poyer
The West Central Pacific	183	(68)
Ecology and Society	183	(4)
Subsistence	185	(2)
Prehistory	187	(9)
Introduction to the Archaeology of Micronesia	187	(1)
Western Micronesia	188	(2)
Eastern Micronesian Prehistory	190	(2)
Topics in Micronesian Archaeology	192	(1)
Micronesia's Complex Chiefdoms	193	(2)
Exchange and Inter-Island Contacts	195	(1)
Linguistics	196	(3)
Identity - Carolines and Marianas	199	(15)
The Mariana Islands	200	(1)
Guam	201	(3)
Northern Marianas Islands	204	(2)
Central Micronesia	206	(2)
Marshall Islands Identity	208	(3)
Ritual Practice and the Projection of Local Identity	211	(2)
Kiribati Identity	213	(1)
Classic Themes in Micronesian Identity	213	(1)
The Winds of Change: ``Freedo-Pendence'' and the Global Marketplace	214	(6)
Banaba	215	(1)
Bikini (and other S/Pacific Locations: Enewetak, Rongelap, Utedik, and Kwajalein)	216	(3)
Econ 101, Pohnpeian Style	219	(1)
Religious Change through History and Revitalization	220	(1)
Religious Background	220	(14)
The Introduction of Christianity	220	(2)
Christianity under Colonial Rule	222	(1)
The Japanese Era and the Pacific War	223	(1)
Micronesian Independence and Indigenous Churches	224	(2)
Religion as Resistance	226	(2)
Christianity and Cultural Identity	228	(2)
Reification of Culture and the Politics of Tradition	230	(4)
Images of the Future	234	(3)
Photographs	237	(6)
References	243	(8)
About the Authors	251	(2)
Index	253