Pacific futures
Subtitle: projects, politics, and interests
By: edited by Will Rollason
Edition: First edition.
Series: Pacific perspectives -- volume 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781782383505; 9781782383512
Subjects: Social life and customs; Pacific Islaners; Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pacific futures, methodological challenges / Will Rollason; title: Imagining the future : an existential and practical activity / Lisette Josephides; title: The hanging of Buliga : a history of the future in the Louisiade Archipelago, PNG / Will Rollason; title: Why the future is selfish and could kill : contraception and the future of Paama / Craig Lind; title: Gambling futures : playing the imminent in highland Papua New Guinea / Anthony Pickles; title: The future of Christian critique : lost tribes discourses in Papua New Guinean publics / Courtney Handman; title: A cursed past and a prosperous future in Vanuatu : a comparison of different conceptions of self and healing / Annelin Eriksen; title: Chiefs for the future? : roles of traditional titleholders in the Cook Islands / Arno Pascht; title: A coup-less future for Fiji? : between rhetoric and political reality / Dominik Schieder; title: The devouring of the placenta : the crisscrossing and confluence of cosmological, geomorphological, ecological, and economic cycles of destruction and repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand / Dave Robinson; title: The human face of climate change : notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu / Vilsoni Hereniko.