Belonging in Oceania

Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-415-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

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, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications—are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermann, Elfriede

Kempf, Wolfgang

Meijl, Toon van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification: Multiplicities of Belonging  

Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann

Chapter 1. Culture as Experience: Constructing Identities through Cross-cultural Encounters

Eveline Dürr

Chapter 2. ‘Forty Plus Different Tribes’: Displacement, Place-making and Aboriginal Tribal Names on Palm Island, Australia

Lise Garond

Chapter 3. Coconuts and the Landscape of Underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea

Will Rollason

Chapter 4. Invisible Villages in the City: Niuean Constructions of Place and Identity in Auckland

Hilke Thode-Arora

Chapter 5. Migration and Identity: Cook Islanders’ Relation to Land

Arno Pascht

Chapter 6. Protestantism among the Pacific Peoples in New Zealand: Mobility, Cultural Identifications, and Generational Shifts

Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer

Chapter 7. Identity and Belonging in Cross-cultural Friendship: Maori and Pakeha Experiences

Agnes Brandt

Epilogue: Uncertain Futures of Belonging: Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania

Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Kempf, Wolfgang
Wolfgang Kempf has taught cultural anthropology at the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Göttingen and is currently a researcher at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He has conducted fieldwork among the Ngaing of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, among the Banabans of Fiji, and in Kiribati.

Hermann, Elfriede
Elfriede Hermann is Professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen and has conducted research with the Ngaing of Papua New Guinea, the Banabans of Rabi Island (Fiji) and Banaba Island (Kiribati), and the inhabitants of Kiribati.

Meijl, Toon van
Toon van Meijl is Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Nijmegen. Since 1982 van Meijl has conducted 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Tainui Maori in New Zealand.

Toon van Meijl is Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Nijmegen. Since 1982 van Meijl has conducted 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Tainui Maori in New Zealand.