Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications—are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification: Multiplicities of Belonging
Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann
Chapter 1. Culture as Experience: Constructing Identities through Cross-cultural Encounters
Eveline Dürr
Chapter 2. ‘Forty Plus Different Tribes’: Displacement, Place-making and Aboriginal Tribal Names on Palm Island, Australia
Lise Garond
Chapter 3. Coconuts and the Landscape of Underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea
Will Rollason
Chapter 4. Invisible Villages in the City: Niuean Constructions of Place and Identity in Auckland
Hilke Thode-Arora
Chapter 5. Migration and Identity: Cook Islanders’ Relation to Land
Arno Pascht
Chapter 6. Protestantism among the Pacific Peoples in New Zealand: Mobility, Cultural Identifications, and Generational Shifts
Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer
Chapter 7. Identity and Belonging in Cross-cultural Friendship: Māori and Pākehā Experiences
Agnes Brandt
Epilogue: Uncertain Futures of Belonging: Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania
Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Toon van Meijl is Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Nijmegen. Since 1982 van Meijl has conducted 30 months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Tainui Māori in New Zealand.
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