Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge In Pacific Societies (Explorations in Anthropology) - Softcover

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9781859731697: Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge In Pacific Societies (Explorations in Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1859731694 ISBN 13: 9781859731697
Verlag: Berg Publishers, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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 being lost. At the same time, an enormous body of knowledge about nature, plants and animals is vanishing. However, in parallel with this, the people of the Pacific are confronted with new modes of knowledge and newly introduced technologies through imported educational systems, missions of various denominations, and the media. They do not passively assimilate this knowledge but adopt, adapt, and apply it in a syncretistic way.These changes will have permanent effects on the individual lives of people in the region and their knowledge about themselves and their surrounding 'world'. This stimulating book tracks the course of these developments and offers revealing insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.

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Verena Keck Institute of Ethnology,University of Heidelberg

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Verlag
Berg Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859731694
ISBN 13 
9781859731697
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
424
Herausgeber
Keck Verena
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