- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
- Histories of the Before
- Beyond the Beach?
- Encountering Agency
- Aphrodite’s Island
- An Encounter with Violence in Paradise
- Inventing Polynesia
- Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu
- Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus
- Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance
- Moving onto the Stage
- Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market
- Alienation and Appropriation
- Shanti and Mana
- Justice in Wallis-‘Uvea
- Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past
- Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity
- A Tale of Three Time Travelers
- Cultural Change in Oceania
- Epilogue
- Contributors
- Index
- About the Editor
- Production Notes
Introduction
Introduction
Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
- Author(s):
Elfriede Hermann
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to demonstrate how social and structural interactions in Oceania yield articulations of cultural traditions and their meanings. The chapters focus on reciprocities between these meanings and their respective contexts, past and present. With an eye set firmly on objects, cultural practices, and ideas, they trace continuities and transformations alike. The shaping and reshaping of meanings via a multiplicity of interactions is analyzed in four sections under the following headings: (1) early encounters, (2) memories, (3) ongoing global and (trans)local processes, and (4) cultural exchange and identities. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Keywords: cultural traditions, social interactions, Oceania, cultural transformation
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings
- Histories of the Before
- Beyond the Beach?
- Encountering Agency
- Aphrodite’s Island
- An Encounter with Violence in Paradise
- Inventing Polynesia
- Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu
- Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus
- Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance
- Moving onto the Stage
- Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market
- Alienation and Appropriation
- Shanti and Mana
- Justice in Wallis-‘Uvea
- Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past
- Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity
- A Tale of Three Time Travelers
- Cultural Change in Oceania
- Epilogue
- Contributors
- Index
- About the Editor
- Production Notes
