Elfriede Hermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 574704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elfriede Hermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elfriede |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermann |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3375-3565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Climate Change, Emotions and Religion
Pacific Islanders often respond emotionally and with recourse to their religious beliefs when faced with news about the projected consequences of climate change. In view of these responses, this paper argues that Pacific Islanders frequently combine their emotions with their religiosity in their efforts to shape their future. A case study of the atoll state of Kiribati illustrates this point. Given that most of this Pacific state’s islands are lo…
“Prophecy from the Past”
Pacific Islanders frequently perceive discourses about climate change and what this is going to mean for the Pacific region as imbued with power-especially when statements to that effect involve projections into the future.They clothe their responses to such discourses in various expressive forms.This holds too, in fact especially, for the inhabitants of the State of Kiribati, which is situated in the Central Pacific and often referred to as an a…
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation
n this chapter I shall consider mimesis as an integral component of transculturation. The term “transculturation,” which Fernando Ortiz ([1947] 1995) was the first to use, describes the processes of adoption, recontextualization, and reconceptualization of practices from another culture. These processes go hand in hand with social interactions and involve all interactive partners as well as the power relationships that are at play (Hermann 2011: …
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
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 traditio…
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Belonging in Oceania
Changing contexts, shifting meanings
"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
Form, Macht, Differenz
Communicating with Transculturation
Introduction to Relations in Multicultural Fiji
Focussing on three historically constituted domains of relations of great importance to all inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, this essay draws attention to cultural modalities and political strategies implicated in shaping these. By way of introduction to six papers which together with this preface and an epilogue are presented in the form of a collection, we distinguish three domains of relations: those between past and present; those between peo…
Reconfigurations of Place and Ethnicity
Spatial belonging and ethnic identity among the Banabans resettled on Rabi Island in Fiji are the product of historically and culturally specific articulations and transformations. Such reconfigurations of place and ethnicity, based mainly on enmeshments between the Banabans' new island home, Rabi, and their island of origin in the Central Pacific, Banaba, have let them position themselves as an autonomous community living out a diaspora existenc…
Emotions and the Relevance of the Past
This article treats the ability emotions have to point up the relevance of past events and so structure consciousness of history. It shows how knowledge of the past is embodied via the agency of emotions. The case study looks at how history is given emotional expression among the Banabans, a group stemming from Banaba Island in central Oceania and later resettled in Fiji. Under the hegemony of Western “regimes of historicity”, the Banabans create…
Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
Dreamscapes
Dreams can contribute much to elucidating how cultural conceptualizations of space are variously generated in a historically constituted terrain of power and knowledge. Our treatment focuses on dreams that deconstruct entrenched demarcations between inside and outside, between the local and the global world. Thus it focuses on dreams that elucidate space as a flexible and negotiable construction. These nexi between dream and space we will attempt…
The Yali movement in retrospect
This paper is concerned with a definition of the term ‘cargo cult’ as formulated by Papua New Guineans from their personal experience of the colonial encounter. An examination of the negative connotations inherent in their interpretative reconstruction of the concept ‘cargo cult’ reveals that these resulted from a dialogue with western cultural constructions of ‘cargo cults’ which effectively discredited these movements. Interpreted in this way, …
India Beyond India
People?s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities operating within various political contexts. Migrants and their descendants labor to form and transform relations with their country of origin and of residence. People who see their origins in India but are now living elsewhere …
Emotions and the Relevance of the Past
This article treats the ability emotions have to point up the relevance of past events and so structure consciousness of history. It shows how knowledge of the past is embodied via the agency of emotions. The case study looks at how history is given emotional expression among the Banabans, a group stemming from Banaba Island in central Oceania and later resettled in Fiji. Under the hegemony of Western “regimes of historicity”, the Banabans create…
Climate Change, Emotions and Religion
Pacific Islanders often respond emotionally and with recourse to their religious beliefs when faced with news about the projected consequences of climate change. In view of these responses, this paper argues that Pacific Islanders frequently combine their emotions with their religiosity in their efforts to shape their future. A case study of the atoll state of Kiribati illustrates this point. Given that most of this Pacific state’s islands are lo…
Communicating with Transculturation
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
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 traditio…
The Yali movement in retrospect
This paper is concerned with a definition of the term ‘cargo cult’ as formulated by Papua New Guineans from their personal experience of the colonial encounter. An examination of the negative connotations inherent in their interpretative reconstruction of the concept ‘cargo cult’ reveals that these resulted from a dialogue with western cultural constructions of ‘cargo cults’ which effectively discredited these movements. Interpreted in this way, …
Dreamscapes
Dreams can contribute much to elucidating how cultural conceptualizations of space are variously generated in a historically constituted terrain of power and knowledge. Our treatment focuses on dreams that deconstruct entrenched demarcations between inside and outside, between the local and the global world. Thus it focuses on dreams that elucidate space as a flexible and negotiable construction. These nexi between dream and space we will attempt…
Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
Introduction to Relations in Multicultural Fiji
Focussing on three historically constituted domains of relations of great importance to all inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, this essay draws attention to cultural modalities and political strategies implicated in shaping these. By way of introduction to six papers which together with this preface and an epilogue are presented in the form of a collection, we distinguish three domains of relations: those between past and present; those between peo…
Reconfigurations of Place and Ethnicity
Spatial belonging and ethnic identity among the Banabans resettled on Rabi Island in Fiji are the product of historically and culturally specific articulations and transformations. Such reconfigurations of place and ethnicity, based mainly on enmeshments between the Banabans' new island home, Rabi, and their island of origin in the Central Pacific, Banaba, have let them position themselves as an autonomous community living out a diaspora existenc…
Emotions and the Relevance of the Past
This article treats the ability emotions have to point up the relevance of past events and so structure consciousness of history. It shows how knowledge of the past is embodied via the agency of emotions. The case study looks at how history is given emotional expression among the Banabans, a group stemming from Banaba Island in central Oceania and later resettled in Fiji. Under the hegemony of Western “regimes of historicity”, the Banabans create…
Communicating with Transculturation
Form, Macht, Differenz
Changing contexts, shifting meanings
"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
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
Belonging in Oceania
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation
n this chapter I shall consider mimesis as an integral component of transculturation. The term “transculturation,” which Fernando Ortiz ([1947] 1995) was the first to use, describes the processes of adoption, recontextualization, and reconceptualization of practices from another culture. These processes go hand in hand with social interactions and involve all interactive partners as well as the power relationships that are at play (Hermann 2011: …
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
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 traditio…
“Prophecy from the Past”
Pacific Islanders frequently perceive discourses about climate change and what this is going to mean for the Pacific region as imbued with power-especially when statements to that effect involve projections into the future.They clothe their responses to such discourses in various expressive forms.This holds too, in fact especially, for the inhabitants of the State of Kiribati, which is situated in the Central Pacific and often referred to as an a…
Climate Change, Emotions and Religion
Pacific Islanders often respond emotionally and with recourse to their religious beliefs when faced with news about the projected consequences of climate change. In view of these responses, this paper argues that Pacific Islanders frequently combine their emotions with their religiosity in their efforts to shape their future. A case study of the atoll state of Kiribati illustrates this point. Given that most of this Pacific state’s islands are lo…
Belonging in Oceania
Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, w…
India Beyond India
People?s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities operating within various political contexts. Migrants and their descendants labor to form and transform relations with their country of origin and of residence. People who see their origins in India but are now living elsewhere …
Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Oceania (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)