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Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings

Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania

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ID11852185
AuthorsAletta Biersack (corresponding author), Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon, B Douglas (0000-0002-7952-9673), Paul Van Der Grijp, David Hanlon (0000-0002-6915-4839), Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Peter Hempenstall, Margaret Jolly (0000-0003-3454-3436), Miriam Kahn, Martha Kaplan, John D Kelly (0000-0002-7616-0321), Wolfgang Kempf (0000-0002-3960-5897), Gundolf Krüger, Jacquelyn A Lewis-Harris, Lamont Lindstrom, Stephen Little, T Van Meijl (0000-0002-0547-2627), Karen L Nero, T Otto (0000-0002-5185-3017), AnneXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Salmond, SergeXX4ctbXX4https://id loc gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Tcherkézoff
EditorsElfriede Hermann (0000-0002-3375-3565)
Year2017
Pages512
Publication date2017-10-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChanging contexts, shifting meanings (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824860141
OpenAlexW2254981825
Open LibraryOL29357448M
ISBN9780824860141
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

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.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of tradition. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, contributors stake out a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people-their ideas, actions, and objects-and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present-with indigenous agency being highlighted

Epistemology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · civilization · Congresses · Oceania · Pacific islanders · Social change · Social life and customs

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