Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This interesting book contributes to notions of identity in the context of displacement or migration. Specifically, it engages with the dynamics and uncertainties that arise with movement away from home and the inevitable encounters between different cultural contexts that occur through such movement… I was captivated by the meticulousness with which some of these chapters were written, and appreciate the micro-scale in which anthropological research operates.” · Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
“I am impressed by the direction and content of this book. It offers a timely engagement with the important social science concepts of movement, place-making, and multiple-identifications. But whereas in other recent studies these notions have usually been theorized and empiricised as isolates, here they are triangulated in an intellectually original and productive way.” · Tom Ryan, University of Waikato
Table of Contents 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
