Centre for Pacific Studies: Recent submissions
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Navigating to the Island of Hope - a Pacific response to globalisation, environmental degradation and climate change
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - ThesisNavigating to the Island of Hope - A Pacific Response to Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Economic Globalisation in Oceania explores and seeks to understand indigenous responses to the powerful forces of ... -
Articulating life-itself : growth, place and movement on Mugaba (Rennell) in the Solomon Islands
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisMugaba (Rennell) and Mugiki (Bellona) in the Solomon Islands, is the site of multiple stories, to which different values are given through different registers of 'life-itself'. Research expeditions that renamed Mugaba's ... -
Infrastructure in Melanesia : imaginaries, experiences and practices of road making in Buka Island
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis explores Melanesian concepts of roads based on multilocal ethnographic research on different kinds of roads in Buka Island, the northern island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It ... -
Translating identities : 'being a missionary' in Papua New Guinea
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisMany studies of missionaries have taken an historical perspective, looking particularly at missionaries’ role in colonialism. However, missionaries are still very much part of contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG), with ... -
What is a schema? : Invited contribution to symposium on Philippe Descola
(2014) - Journal itemComment on Descola, Philippe. 2013. Beyond nature and culture. Translated by Janet Lloyd with a foreword by Marshall Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.