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Island Rivers : Fresh Water and Place in Oceania.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia-Pacific Environment MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760462178
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Island RiversDDC classification:
  • 303.4832099
LOC classification:
  • GN386 .I853 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: River as Ethnographic Subject -- 2. The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon -- 3. A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: The Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu -- 4. Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia -- 5. Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea -- 6. 'At Every Bend a Chief, At Every Bend a Chief, Waikato of One Hundred Chiefs': Mapping the Socio-Political Life of the Waikato River -- 7. Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai'i -- 8. The Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Nourishing Tradition and Modern Catastrophe -- 9. Rivers of Memory and Forgetting.
Summary: The authors of this collection seek to fill a gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of Pacific island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change.
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Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: River as Ethnographic Subject -- 2. The River, the Water and the Crocodile in Marovo Lagoon -- 3. A Source of Power, Disquiet and Biblical Purport: The Jordan River in Santo, Vanuatu -- 4. Unflowing Pasts, Lost Springs and Watery Mysteries in Eastern Polynesia -- 5. Riverine Disposal of Mining Wastes in Porgera: Capitalist Resource Development and Metabolic Rifts in Papua New Guinea -- 6. 'At Every Bend a Chief, At Every Bend a Chief, Waikato of One Hundred Chiefs': Mapping the Socio-Political Life of the Waikato River -- 7. Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai'i -- 8. The Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Nourishing Tradition and Modern Catastrophe -- 9. Rivers of Memory and Forgetting.

The authors of this collection seek to fill a gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of Pacific island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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