The Melanesian world / edited by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirsch, Eric, 1956- editor.

Rollason, Will, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Civilization.

Melanesia--Civilization.

Melanesia.

Melanesia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The 'Melanesian world' assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Series information; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Maps of the region and its language groups; Chapter one Introduction: The Challenge of Melanesia; Part I Historical context; Chapter two The archaeology of melanesia; First people of oceania; Routes into sahul; Sites and dates; A rapid expansion; Coastal adaptations; Interior adaptation; Changes in late pleistocene adaptations; The holocene

the earth warms up; Beginning of agriculture; Holocene interactions

Austronesian dispersals: remote oceania colonised for the first timeThe end of lapita: differences between remote and new oceania; Last 2,000 years: island melanesia; Last 2,000 years: mainland new guinea; The future of archaeology in the western pacific; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter three Melanesia: a region and a history; Colonial rule; Formal colonialism; Colonial commerce; The impact of colonialism; The pacific war; Decolonisation; Melanesia in history; Notes; References; Chapter four Missionaries in the melanesian world; Missionary organisation; The missionary encounter

ConclusionNotes; References; Part II Geo-political, linguistic and regional overviews; Chapter five Geo-political overview of melanesia; Melanesian political systems; Independence movements in melanesia; West papua; New caledonia; Bougainville; Torres strait islands; Melanesia in the international community; Australia; France; Usa; China and taiwan; Conclusion; References; Chapter six Melanesia as a zone of language diversity; The languages; Language prehistory; Contact languages; English-based pidgins; Ways of speaking

Multilingualism, code switching and social identity in contemporary melanesiaWhat lies ahead?; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter seven Regional overview: from diversity to multiple singularities; Social order and exchange; Diverse cosmologies of exchange; Exchange and the politics of difference; Open cultures; Forms of incorporation; Emerging singularities; New jerusalem in png; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Note; References; Part III Economy and livelihood; Chapter eight Subsistence food production in melanesia; Introduction; A regional overview of food production; Papua new guinea

Data sourcesMain sources of food; Import dependency; Population eating each major staple food and domestically traded food; Food availability; Stability of food supply; Changes in food consumption over time; West papua; Vanuatu; New caledonia; Torres strait islands; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter nine Class, labour and consumption in urban melanesia; Introduction; Caste and class in colonial melanesia; Materialising difference; Education and social class; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter ten Money schemes in contemporary melanesia; Melanesian popular economies

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781315529677

131552967X

9781315529691

1315529696

9781315529660

1315529661

9781315529684

1315529688

OCLC:

1091190741

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