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Theater and Political Process: Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand
Ingjerd Hoem
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Hoem's ethnography is sure-footed, subtle and comprehensive, and has the additional virtue of being backed by a considerable body of primary texts.a valuable contribution to the understanding of Tokelau culture in its various manifestations as well as of some of the processes by which social changes are continuously negotiated. * The Journal of the Polynesian Society The book is .rich in discussions of Pacific anthropologists and theories of space and migration, but I feel that it stands out as a deeply humane and informative ethnography of the Tokelau people and their self-presentation in the modern Pacific. ... Read more
Hoem's ethnography is sure-footed, subtle and comprehensive, and has the additional virtue of being backed by a considerable body of primary texts.a valuable contribution to the understanding of Tokelau culture in its various manifestations as well as of some of the processes by which social changes are continuously negotiated. * The Journal of the Polynesian Society The book is .rich in discussions of Pacific anthropologists and theories of space and migration, but I feel that it stands out as a deeply humane and informative ethnography of the Tokelau people and their self-presentation in the modern Pacific. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571815835
SKU
V9781571815835
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About Ingjerd Hoem
Ingjerd Hoem is Head of the Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History at the Kon-Tiki Museum. She has carried out fieldwork in Tokelau communities since 1986. Her most recent fieldwork was on Pileni in the Solomon Islands.
Reviews for Theater and Political Process: Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand
.. .succeeds admirably as an investigation into the experiences and effects of migration and displacement on social and political structures of a Polynesian society in the late 20th century conveyed through forms of expressive culture. - Ethnos Ho m's ethnography is sure-footed, subtle and comprehensive, and has the additional virtue of being backed ... Read more