Tides of Innovation in Oceania : Value, Materiality and Place.

Intro -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Where is Anthropology Located in the Task of Putting People First? -- Introduction: Tides of Innovation in Oceania -- Part One. Mapping Materiality in Time and Place -- Alterity and Autochthony: Austronesian Cosmographies of the Marvellous -- Moving Objects: Reflections on Oceanic Collections -- Kanak Engraved Bamboos: Stories of the Past, Stories of the Present -- Re-dressing Materiality: Robes Mission and Entrepreneurship of Kanak Women in Lifou from 'Colonial' to 'Cultural' Object -- Part Two. Value and Agency: Local Experiences in Expanded Narratives -- Kanak Women on the Move in Contemporary New Caledonia -- A Fat Sow Named Skulfi: 'Expensive' Words in Dobu Island Society -- Development, Tourism and Commodification of Cultures in Vanuatu -- Diversification of Foods and their Values: Pacific Foodscapes -- The Innovation of Tradition: Reflections on the Ebb and Flow of Heritage Regimes in Fiji -- Epilogue -- Contributors.

Tides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau'ofa's vision of the Pacific as a 'Sea of Islands'; the image of tides recalls the cyclical movement of waves, with its unpredictable consequences. The authors propose tides of innovation as a fluid concept, unbound and open to many directions.

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