<p>  Offering insight into the major changes that are taking place in the context of increasing globalization in Pacific Island societies, the authors seek to “ground” globalization in concrete real life cases of communities that are dealing with specific processes of globalization and formulating their own responses in their own cultural terms.  The case studies presented reflect the many different cultural contexts of island societies as they deal with: global politics, nation states, and ethnic conflict; global economic integration and transnationalism; evolving identities and cultural representations; changes in patterns of social and community relations; and increasing integration into global religions.  For anyone interested in the effects of globalization on the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. </p>

Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands

Politics & Social Sciences

Lockwood, Victoria S.

Social Sciences

Pearson

<p>The twenty-one articles in this text describe and analyze contemporary political, social, and economic issues in the three culture areas of Oceania: Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Chapters are written by noted specialists in all areas and are well mixed regionally and topically to give a broad perspective on contemporary change and development in the Pacific Islands. For social scientists working throughout Oceania and all those interested in contemporary Pacific cultures. </p>

Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change (Exploring Cultures)

Harding, Thomas G.

Wallace, Ben J.

Anthropology

Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society (Women and Change in the Developing World)

As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernisation and incorporation into the French welfare state. Lockwood's analysis of the impact of capitalism centres around two major themes in Third World development: the structural changes that take place in non-Western socioeconomic systems as capitalist methods of production overwhelm indigenous economic organisation; and the nature of the increasing social, economic and political subordination of women that accompanies Westernisation.

Business & Money

Economics

Lynne Rienner Pub

Women's Studies

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