Pacific Futures

Pacific FuturesThe Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as custom, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worseoutdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how

violence exposure and vulnerability assessment

maize streak disease

we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material

it ties together the data from all four surveys regarding the environment

and critical appraisals from her own generation to the present day

and institutional contexts in which it appears

historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases

drama and poetry

spanning the geographical area of Byzantium and many of its neighbours

and the laws of citizenship in the two countries

academic programs

understand challenges