Pacific answers to Western hegemony : cultural practices of identity construction / edited by Jürg Wassmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wassmann, Jürg.

Series:

Explorations in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Oceania.

Ethnicity.

Culture conflict--Oceania.

Culture conflict.

Aboriginal Australians--Ethnic identity.

Aboriginal Australians.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

vii, 449 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1998.

Summary:

The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a "McDonald-ized" cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations, tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights and titles, particularly in Australia.

This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing ethnographic literature on the region and confidently navigates what had previously been considered uncharted, even unchartable, waters -- the wide sea between the classic ethnography of Oceania and contemporary anthropology's theoretical concerns with global relations and transnational cultures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859731546

1859731597

OCLC:

40166321