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Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific / Antony Hooper, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific policy papersPublisher: Canberra : Asia Pacific Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xv, 227 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0731536274
  • 9780731536276
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Antony Hooper -- Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific / Langi Kavaliku -- The ocean in us / Epeli Hau'ofa -- On the anthropology of modernity; or, some triumphs of culture over despondency theory / Marshall Sahlins -- Gender, culture and sustainable development--the Pacific way / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop -- Governance, development and leadership in Polynesia : a microstudy from Samoa / Malama Meleisea -- Rumble in the jungle : land, culture and (un)sustainable logging in Solomon Islands / Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka -- Knowing about culture : the handling of social issues at resource projects in Papua New Guinea / John Burton -- Culture and sustainable marine resource development in the Pacific / Philipp Muller -- Fisheries resource-use culture in Fiji and its implications / Joeli Veitayaki -- Local hierarchies of authority and development / Kerry James -- A paradox of tradition in a modernising society : chiefs and political development in Fiji / Robert Norton -- Development and Maori society : building from the centre or the edge? / Shane Jones -- Culturally and ecologically sustainable tourism development through local community management / Richard A. Engelhardt -- Tourism and culture : a sustainable partnership / Levani V. Tuinabua -- Vaka Moana--a road map for the South Pacific / Hana Ayala -- Vaka Moana--the ocean roads / Mali Voi -- Afterword : after the world decade / Russell Marshall.
Summary: Throughout the South Pacific, notions of 'culture' and 'development' are very much alive - in political debate, the media, sermons and endless discussions. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good without sacrificing traditional values and institutions.
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Introduction / Antony Hooper -- Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific / Langi Kavaliku -- The ocean in us / Epeli Hau'ofa -- On the anthropology of modernity; or, some triumphs of culture over despondency theory / Marshall Sahlins -- Gender, culture and sustainable development--the Pacific way / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop -- Governance, development and leadership in Polynesia : a microstudy from Samoa / Malama Meleisea -- Rumble in the jungle : land, culture and (un)sustainable logging in Solomon Islands / Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka -- Knowing about culture : the handling of social issues at resource projects in Papua New Guinea / John Burton -- Culture and sustainable marine resource development in the Pacific / Philipp Muller -- Fisheries resource-use culture in Fiji and its implications / Joeli Veitayaki -- Local hierarchies of authority and development / Kerry James -- A paradox of tradition in a modernising society : chiefs and political development in Fiji / Robert Norton -- Development and Maori society : building from the centre or the edge? / Shane Jones -- Culturally and ecologically sustainable tourism development through local community management / Richard A. Engelhardt -- Tourism and culture : a sustainable partnership / Levani V. Tuinabua -- Vaka Moana--a road map for the South Pacific / Hana Ayala -- Vaka Moana--the ocean roads / Mali Voi -- Afterword : after the world decade / Russell Marshall.

Throughout the South Pacific, notions of 'culture' and 'development' are very much alive - in political debate, the media, sermons and endless discussions. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good without sacrificing traditional values and institutions.

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