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Zusatztext "Overall! the essays are well-written! structured! referenced! detailed and reveal instances of Pacific life not well known or previously published! and this makes Pacific Futures a useful addition to any library of fieldwork reports theoretical pieces and general anthropology works." · Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies "The plural 'futures' of the book's title highlights the value of ethnographic research into the diversity of projects of Oceanic peoples! but also the indeterminacy and weakness of future as a singular or abstract analytical concept. But in their deliberate break from the slippages of dominant temporal tropes consigning people to a traditional past! or to a Western present! the authors of this collection make an important step forward! by allowing Pacific people to articulate their aspirations in their own terms." · Pacific Affairs " Pacific Futures is a welcome book with a timely message for anthropology! told in many worthy ethnographies. The best news! perhaps! is that a future-aware anthropology does not sound so foreign to mainstream anthropology; the field can integrate and develop this line of thought without jarring change to our disciplinary perspective. In fact! I would argue that anthropology has been conscious of its own future for some time! so a future-conscious ethnographic and theoretical practice is entirely consistent with where the discipline is going in its own future." · Anthropology Review Database "This book makes an important contribution to studies of the Pacific Island nations and societies by asking scholars to demonstrate how the activities of Pacific Islanders can be better understood by analysing the future as a field of possibility! action! and hopes." · Karen Sykes ! Manchester University Informationen zum Autor Will Rollason is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University, UK, having received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2008. He has published on mimesis, race, and the postcolony in Papua New Guinea in the context of sports, marine resource harvesting and clothing. His monograph, We are Playing Football, was published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Klappentext Seeks to understand social life and culture the Pacific region in terms of the future, rather than reproducing cultural traditions of the past. Considers different aspects of Pacific culture from Christianity, marriage, and reflections on childhood fishing trips to military coups, gambling and cargo cult. Contributors show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind. Zusammenfassung Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges Will Rollason Chapter 1. Imagining the Future: An Existential and Practical Activity Lisette Josephides Chapter 2. The Hanging of Buliga: A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, PNG Will Rollason Chapter 3. Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill: Contraception and the Future of Paama Craig Lind Chapter 4. Gambling Futures: Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea Anthony Pickles Chapter 5. The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics Courtney Handman Chapter 6. A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu: a Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing Annelin Eriksen Chapter 7. Chiefs ...
