Changing contexts, shifting meanings
Subtitle: transformations of cultural traditions in Oceania
By: edited by Elfriede Hermann
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780824833664
Subjects: Civilization; Congresses; Pacific Islanders; Social change
Description: "This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Papers from a symposium sponsored by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, held Feb. 23-26, 2006, in conjunction with the exhibition Life in the Pacific of the 1700s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.