Tides of Innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place.

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Imprint:	Australian National University.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL) Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
Subject:	Hauʻofa, Epeli -- Influence. Ethnology -- Oceania. Economic history. Ethnology. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Social conditions. Oceania -- Social conditions. Oceania -- Economic conditions. Oceania. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397934

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ISBN:	9781760460938 1760460931 9781760460921 1760460923
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Gnecchi-Ruscone, Elisabetta. Tides of Innovation in Oceania : Value, materiality and place. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2017 9781760460921
Standard no.:	10.22459/TIO.04.2017

Table of 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.

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