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Common Worlds and Single Lives : Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies Book

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  • Common Worlds and Single Lives : Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies
  • Written by author Verena Keck
  • Published by Berg Publishers, 1998/11/01
  • In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also bei
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Introduction 1
1 Reflections on Knowledge in an Oceanic Setting 33
2 Body, Being and Identity in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea 55
3 On the Acquisition of Knowledge: Teaching Kinship through the Body among the Tiwi of Northern Australia 71
4 Cannibalism and Compassion: Transformations in Fijian Concepts of the Person 95
5 A Twist of the Rope 119
6 Biographies of Social Action: Excessive Portraits 137
7 'Praying Samoa and Praying Oui-Oui': Making Christianity Local on Lifu (Loyalty Islands) 171
8 Appropriating the Other: A Case Study from New Britain 207
9 Experiencing Outside Worlds: Tannese Labour Recruitment in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 231
10 Intrusions into the Female Realm: The Medicalization of Human Procreation among the Kwanga in Papua New Guinea 251
11 The Chuukese Women's Status: Traditional and Modern Elements 273
12 Showing the Invisible: Violence and Politics among the Ankave-Anga (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea) 287
13 'Big Man' and 'Big Woman' in the Village - Elite in the Town. The Iatmul, Papua New Guinea 309
14 Why Do the Tiwi Want a New Township? 329
15 Staging a Political Challenge: The Story of Tokelau te Ata 353
16 The New Modernities 379
Notes on Contributors 405
Index 411


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