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Nadarajah, Yaso, and Adam Grydehøj. "Island studies as a decolonial project (Guest Editorial Introduction)." Island Studies Journal 11, no. 2 (2016): 437–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.360.

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The phenomenon of colonialism influenced the cultures, economies, and politics of the majority of the world’s population. The subsequent decolonization process has likewise had profound affects on colonized societies. Island societies undergoing decolonization face many of the same pressures and challenges as do mainland societies, yet island spatiality and the history of island colonization itself has left former and present-day island colonies with distinctive colonial legacies. From the Caribbean to the Arctic to the Pacific to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, colonial and decolonial processes are creating tensions between maintenance of the culture of indigenous peoples, economic development, cultivation of cultural heritage, political modernization, status on the global stage, democratic governance, and educational achievement. We call for an island studies perspective on decolonization, emphasizing the importance of appropriately positioning expert knowledge relative to the needs of colonized and indigenous peoples and highlighting the pitfalls of neocolonialsim. We thus lay the groundwork for island studies as a decolonial project.
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JONES, ADRIAN. "A RUSSIAN BOURGEOIS'S ARCTIC ENLIGHTENMENT." Historical Journal 48, no. 3 (September 2005): 623–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x05004590.

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Studies of Europe's Enlightenment have been enriched by attending to its real and imagined impacts on indigenous peoples and of indigenous peoples on Europeans. Applying these methods to new-settled eighteenth-century societies offers another standpoint on the Enlightenment. This study is a sample: a civic history of a relatively new – in European terms – place suggests the possibilities. In 1792, a bourgeois, Vasilii Krestinin, from Russia's White Sea shore, published a history of Archangel, founded in 1584. Krestinin's view from a new Arctic society is as far from Europe's elegant metropoles and eloquent lumières as the ship captains, Pacific Islanders, and cat killers in influential recent studies of the Enlightenment. Just as these studies – and others on readers and reading – transformed studies of the Enlightenment, historians can use sources from new societies to observe answers and actions of people casting themselves as Enlighteners. This study of enlightened sensibility in an Arctic society suggests how the Enlightenment – viewed from settler societies – became anxious, how it fanned nationalisms, and how it was ensnared by naïve presuppositions that progress was a prerequisite of power.
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Spicer, Chrystopher J. "Weep for the Coming of Men: Epidemic and Disease in Anglo-Western Colonial Writing of the South Pacific." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 20, no. 1 (April 19, 2021): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.1.2021.3783.

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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable literary conjunction, they each successively visited the Marquesas Islands, which became for them a microcosm of the epidemiological disaster they were witnessing across the Pacific. Instead of the tropical Eden they expected, these writers experienced and wrote about a tainted paradise corrupted and fatally ravaged by contact with Western societies. Even though these writers were looking through the prism of Social Darwinism and extinction discourse, they were all nevertheless appalled at the situation, and their writing is witness to their anguish. Unlike the typical Victorian-era traveller described by Mary Louise Pratt as the “seeing-man”, who remained distanced in their writing from the environment around them, this group wrote with the authority of personal felt experience, bearing witness to the horrific impact of Western society on the physical and mental health of Pacific Island populations. The literary voice of this collection of writers continues to be not only a clear and powerful witness of the past, but also a warning to the present about the impact of ‘civilisation’ on Pacific Island peoples and cultures.
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Shanks, G. Dennis. "Epidemiological Isolation May Explain Differences in Historical Respiratory Infectious Disease Mortality." American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 106, no. 1 (January 5, 2022): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.21-0833.

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ABSTRACT. Indigenous and aboriginal peoples of the Americas and Pacific died at enormous rates soon after joining the global pathogen pool in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries from respiratory infections such as smallpox, measles, and influenza. It was widely assumed that this represented a selection process against primitive societies. Darwinian selection for specific genetic resistance factors seems an unlikely hypothesis given that some populations stabilized quickly over two to three generations. European-origin populations whose childhood was marked by epidemiological isolation also suffered high infectious disease mortality from respiratory pathogens. American soldiers with smallpox, South African (Boer) children with measles, and New Zealand soldiers with influenza suggest that epidemiological isolation resulting in few previous respiratory infections during childhood may be a consistent mortality risk factor. Modern studies of innate immunity following Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) in infancy point toward rapid immune adaptation rather than evolutionary selection as an explanation for excessive first contact epidemic mortality from respiratory pathogens.
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Binns, Colin W., Mi Kyung Lee, Thi Thuy Duong Doan, Andy Lee, Minh Pham, and Yun Zhao. "COVID and Gender: A Narrative Review of the Asia-Pacific Region." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010245.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest infectious disease epidemic to affect the human race since the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 and is close to approaching the number of deaths from the earlier epidemic. A review of available data and the numerous currently available studies on COVID-19 shows that the rate of clinical cases is about 10% greater in females than males in Asia. However, the number of deaths is greater in males than in females. Women are more likely to experience the psychological effects of COVID-19 during and after acute infections. A significant proportion of acute COVID-19 infections continue and their prolonged symptoms have been reported. Further studies are needed, including detailed serology, to measure and monitor the incidence of COVID-19. The pandemic has had a widespread impact on broader societies including shortages of food, lockdowns and isolation. The number of orphans in developing countries has increased. Women have had to bear the major impacts of these community effects. More research is required to develop better vaccines acting against new strains of the virus and to develop systems to distribute vaccines to all people.
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Richards, Eric. "How Did Poor People Emigrate from the British Isles to Australia in the Nineteenth Century?" Journal of British Studies 32, no. 3 (July 1993): 250–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386032.

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One of the great themes of modern history is the movement of poor people across the face of the earth. For individuals and families the economic and psychological costs of these transoceanic migrations were severe. But they did not prevent millions of agriculturalists and proletarians from Europe reaching the new worlds in both the Atlantic and the Pacific basins in the nineteenth century. These people, in their myriad voyages, shifted the demographic balance of the continents and created new economies and societies wherever they went. The means by which these emigrations were achieved are little explored.Most emigrants directed themselves to the cheapest destinations. The Irish, for instance, migrated primarily to England, Scotland, and North America. The general account of British and European emigration in the nineteenth century demonstrates that the poor were not well placed to raise the costs of emigration or to insert themselves into the elaborate arrangements required for intercontinental migration. Usually the poor came last in the sequence of emigration.The passage to Australasia was the longest and the most expensive of these migrations. From its foundation as a penal colony in 1788, New South Wales depended almost entirely on convict labor during its first four decades. Unambiguous government sanction for free immigration emerged only at the end of the 1820s, when new plans were devised to encourage certain categories of emigrants from the British population. As each of the new Australian colonies was developed so the dependence on convict labor diminished.
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Sarangi, Dr U. "Role of Asia-Pacific Regions in Partnering UN SDGs." Journal of Economics, Trade and Marketing Management 4, no. 1 (May 16, 2022): p8. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jetmm.v4n1p8.

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The research paper identifies broad strategies for accelerating transformative change processes in the form of mission orientation and mobilizing the public and stakeholders, aligning systems, readying institutions and people for change, policy making for managing complexity which are considered to be the building blocks in the Asia Pacific region. The focus of the research study is on the growth, development, economics of peace, role and impact of SDGs on the economies and societies in general including justice, peace building, developing strong institutions and in transforming the region into an international hub to achieve the SDGs and the broader agenda of UN 2030 including the overall development of the Asia-Pacific region in the long run. The paper studies the aspects of the inter-linkages between Governments and other stakeholders to deliver the ‘decade of action towards SDG’, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19. It is observed that COVID-19 pandemic has created many gaps in social protection systems and wider policies for delivering public goods with devastating effects on the poorest and utmost vulnerable in the Asia-Pacific region. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Summit held in 2019 had identified six transformative areas to accelerate progress towards the SDGs. In fact, these transformative areas present development challenges that are interlinked, complex and integrate goals and targets across the SDG framework which are strengthening human well-being and capabilities, shifting towards sustainable and just economies, securing the global environmental commons. A proposed action plan with regional interventions in the Asia-Pacific region, alignment with the goals and outcomes of the UNFPA strategic plan 2018-2021 and the Roadmap of PIFS in accelerating the SDGs have been delineated in the study.
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Maschner, Hergert D. G., and Brian M. Fagan. "Hunter-gatherer complexity on the west coast of North America." Antiquity 65, no. 249 (December 1991): 921–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00080716.

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The west coast of North America encompasses some of the richest and most diverse maritime environments on earth. Even in their presentday impoverished state, they support major commercial fisheries, large whale migrations and dense sea mammal populations. From the earliest days of European exploration, visitors such as the redoubtable Captain James Cook commented on the rich culture of Pacific coast peoples (Beaglehole 1967). ‘Their life may be said to comprise a constant meal,’ remarked Spanish friar Pedro Fages of the Chumash peoples of the Santa Barbara Channel in southern California. At European contact, between the 16th and 18th centuries AD, the shores of the Bering Strait, the Pacific Northwest and parts of the California coast supported elaborate, sophisticated and sedentary huntergatherer peoples. These decimated and muchchanged societies still enjoyed elaborate ceremonials and intricate social relations as late as the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when pioneer anthropologists such as Franz Boas and John Harrington worked among them. From these researches have come classic stereotypes of west coast peoples as ‘complex huntergatherer societies’, some of which were organized in powerful chiefdoms. Peoples like the Tlingit, the Kwakiutl and the Chumash have become the epitome of complex huntergatherers in many archaeologists’ eyes.
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Rankine, Jenny, Teuila Percival, Eseta Finau, Linda-Teleo Hope, Pefi Kingi, Maiava Carmel Peteru, Elizabeth Powell, Robert Robati-Mani, and Elisala Selu. "Pacific Peoples, Violence, and the Power and Control Wheel." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 18 (August 12, 2015): 2777–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260515596148.

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This qualitative project was the first to study values and practices about sexual assault among migrant communities from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, and Tuvalu in New Zealand. It aimed to identify customs, beliefs, and practices among these ethnic groups that were protective and preventive factors against sexual violence. Researchers were ethnically matched with 78 participants from the seven ethnic communities, and conducted individual interviews and one female focus group using protocols that were culturally appropriate for each ethnic group. Interviews were thematically analyzed. The study identified the brother–sister covenant and the sanctity of women as strong protective and preventive factors against sexual violence, expressed differently in each culture. Most participants viewed sexual violence as involving their extended families, village, and church communities, rather than solely the individuals concerned. However, the communal values and practices of these seven Pacific cultures raise questions about the individualistic assumptions and the meaning of violence underlying the Power and Control Wheel and the Duluth Model of domestic violence. It also raises questions about how such an individualized model can help services effectively support women in these collective societies who are experiencing violence, and how it can contribute to Pacific community prevention of violence. This study is therefore relevant to countries with significant populations of Pacific peoples and other collective cultures.
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Moore, Nicole E., and Lynn Robinson. "The Role of Subduction Zone Processes in the Cultural History of the Cascade Region." Elements 18, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 246–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/gselements.18.4.246.

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The Cascadia subduction zone continuously shapes the landscape of the Pacific Northwest of North America and the cultures of its inhabitants. The impacts of subduction processes on Pacific Northwest societies and cultures are varied, but Native Americans and European settler cultures alike have described geological processes through oral histories and have relied on resources provided by the subduction zone. Indigenous peoples focus many aspects of their religious practices and art around the geohazards of the Cascadia region, and our melded modern cultures continue to take part in storytelling related to subduction zone hazards through movies and other forms of narration.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies"

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Hall, David Edward. "Sustainability from the Perspectives of Indigenous Leaders in the Bioregion Defined by the Pacific Salmon Runs of North America." PDXScholar, 2008. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2569.

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Extensive research suggests that the collective behavior of humanity is on an unsustainable path. As the evidence mounts and more people awaken to this reality, increased attention is being dedicated to the pursuit of answers for a just and sustainable future. This dissertation grew from the premise that effectively moving towards sustainability requires change at all levels of the dominant Western culture, including deeply held worldviews. The worldviews of many indigenous cultures offer alternative values and beliefs that can contribute to addressing the root causes of problems related to sustainability. In the bioregion defined by the Pacific Salmon runs of North America there is a rich heritage and modern day presence of diverse indigenous cultures. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 indigenous leaders from within this bioregion to explore their mental models of sustainability. These interviews followed a general structure that covered: (a) the personal background and community affiliation of each interviewee; (b) the meaning of the concept of sustainability from their perspective; (c) visions of a sustainable future for their communities; and, (d) how to achieve such a future. A content analysis of the interviews was conducted and summarized into a narrative organized to correspond with the general interview structure. A process oftestimonial validity established that most participants found the narrative to be an accurate representation of their perspectives. Participant feedback led to several phrasing changes and other identified issues are discussed, including one participant's critique of the narrative's use of a first-person plural voice. Major themes from the interviews include the role of the human being as caretaker actively participating in the web of life, the importance of simultaneously restoring culture and ecology due to their interdependence, the need to educate and build awareness, and the importance of cooperation. Understanding who we are as a living species, including our profound connection with nature, along with a holistic and intergenerational perspective are suggested as prerequisite for balancing and aligning human modes of being with the larger patterns of life. The closing discussion addresses the importance of social action and going beyond a conceptual understanding to an embodiment of sustainability.
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Calderon, Kristen Naylor. "The impact of cross-cultural transition on intercultural relationships using a strengths-based approach." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/825.

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Keady, Joseph. "A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/881.

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My thesis is an analysis of my own translation of a chapter from Dominik Nagl's legal history 'Grenzfälle,' which addresses questions of citizenship and nationality in the context of the German colonies in Africa and the South Pacific. My analysis focuses primarily on strategies that I used in an effort to preserve the strangeness of a linguistic context that is, in many ways, "foreign" to twenty first-century North Americans while also striving to avoid reproducing the violence embedded in language that is historically laden with extreme power disparities.
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Wenstob, Stella Maris. "Canoes and colony: the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural engagement in the colonial context of British Columbia (1849-1871)." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5971.

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The cedar dugout canoe is iconically associated with First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast, but the vital contribution it made to the economic and social development of British Columbia is historically unrecognized. This beautifully designed and crafted oceangoing vessel, besides being a prized necessity to the maritime First Nations peoples, was an essential transportation link for European colonists. In speed, maneuverability, and carrying capacity it vied with any other seagoing technology of the time. The dugout canoe became an important site of engagement between First Nations peoples and settlers. European produced textual and visual records of the colonial period are examined to analyze the dugout canoe as a site of intercultural interaction with a focus upon the European representation. This research asks: Was the First Nations' dugout canoe essential to colonial development in British Columbia and, if so, were the First Nations acknowledged for this vital contribution? Analysis of primary archival resources (letters and journals), images (photographs, sketches and paintings) and colonial publications, such as the colonial dispatches, memoirs and newspaper accounts, demonstrate that indeed the dugout canoe and First Nations canoeists were essential to the development of the colony of British Columbia. However, these contributions were differentially acknowledged as the colony shifted from a fur trade-oriented operation to a settler-centric development that emphasized the alienation of First Nations’ land for settler use. By focusing research on the dugout canoe and its use and depiction by Europeans, connections between European colonists and First Nations canoeists, navigators and manufacturers are foregrounded. This focus brings together these two key historical players demonstrating their “entangled” nature (Thomas 1991:139) and breaking down “silences” and “trivializations” in history (Trouillot 1995:96), working to build an inclusive and connected history of colonial British Columbia.
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Books on the topic "Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies"

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J, Cogan John, Morris Paul 1946-, and Print Murray, eds. Civic education in the Asia-Pacific region: Case studies across six societies. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

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Drahos, Peter. Indigenous Peoples' Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development. Canberra: ANU Press, 2012.

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Sertori, Trisha. First peoples of Oceania: Aboriginal peoples of Australia, Maori of New Zealand, Papuans of New Guinea. South Yarra, Vic: Macmillan Library, 2009.

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The invention of god in indigenous societies. Durham: Acumen, 2014.

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E, Inikori J., and Engerman Stanley L, eds. The Atlantic slave trade: Effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.

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Sue, O'Connor, and Veth Peter Marius, eds. East of Wallace's line: Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region. Rotterdam: Balkema, 2000.

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Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (Philippines), ed. Globalization, trade, and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific: Case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Friends of the Earth International and Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center Inc.-Kasama sa Kalikasan, 2001.

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Urbanizing frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.

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Identities in transition: Challenges for transitional justice in divided societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Rethinking social evolution: The perspective from middle-range societies. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.

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Brown, Ruairidh J. "Travels in a Haunted House. Rational Curiosities and Overlapping Dichotomies in Duncan McPherson MD’s Account of the ‘Chinese Expedition’ of 1840–1842." In Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies, 145–73. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0124-9_6.

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AbstractThe chapter proposes to explore rational curiosity as a key category to unpack nineteenth-century British perspectives on Asia, and especially China. Duncan MacPherson’s account is interpreted from a new perspective, which highlights both imperialist rhetoric and overlapping dichotomies. A careful reading shows how even at the height of European expansion we do not find in travel literature any clear dichotomy of East vs West, but rather a Eurocentric view of material and scientific progress that praised or condemned different aspects of both Asian and European societies. Hence, Asia emerges as a complex space where the civilising mission encounters problems similar to those encountered amongst British people: traditions, irrationality and passions. This chapter therefore adds to the reflection of the volume on the use of knowledge and the impact of identity, whilst uncovering a more specific mode of curiosity rooted in post-Enlightenment thought and guiding the encounter with Asia.
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Taylor, Dean, Clara Laydon, Nicole Holmes, Carmine Piantedosi, Elisiva Tapueluelu, and James Young. "Climate Resilient Water Safety Plans in the Pacific." In Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies, 239–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16648-8_11.

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Salonia, Matteo. "Asian Ceremonies and Christian Chivalry in Pigafetta’s ‘The First Voyage Around the World’." In Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies, 83–110. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0124-9_4.

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AbstractThis essay focuses on early Iberian Asia and explores the theme of curiosity in the Asian sections of Antonio Pigafetta’s First Voyage Around the World, an account of the Magellan expedition. The contribution discusses Pigafetta’s narrative after the finding of the Strait, fleshing out both the colorful images of Asian rites and the presence of Christian chivalry in the text. Pigafetta portrays the Philippines, the Moluccas, and other islands from the perspective of an intellectual knight, self-consciously shaping his own character not only in the past, but also in the future. On the one hand, his guided curiosity usually avoids judgments about the strange societies that he observes; on the other hand, the importance of chivalric values demonstrates the resilience of cultural backgrounds and locally rooted meanings even at the moment of encounter. There is empathy rather than “othering,” but this is not in contradiction with Pigafetta’s cultural and religious identity.
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"Developing Societies Case Studies: Asia-Pacific." In Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies, 141–42. CRC Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b19181-11.

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Albarella, Umberto, and Filippo Manconi. "Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica." In Pigs and Humans. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199207046.003.0027.

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In this chapter we illustrate, with examples, present-day traditional practices of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica. The approach to this work is ethnoarchaeological, which means that its main aim is to collect modern socio-economic data that can be useful for the interpretation of zooarchaeological remains of pigs and, more in general, for our understanding of the past (cf. Schiffer 1976: 31). The analysis of modern society as an aid to understanding the past has a long tradition in archaeology, and was particularly encouraged by the innovations in archaeological methods of the late 1960s and 1970s (e.g. Binford 1978; Gould 1980). The comparison between past and present is based on the concept of analogy (cf. Gould 1980: 29), which has been much discussed and criticized in the archaeological literature (Audouze 1992). Nevertheless, analogy remains a useful tool in archaeological interpretation as long as it is used cautiously and with an understanding of context (Hodder 1982). It can also be argued that archaeological interpretation is inevitably analogical as we cannot directly observe the past, and any attempt to improve our understanding of the past is based on comparative models, whether they are drawn from ethnographic observations or not. The relation between people and animals represents a core factor in the functioning of past and modern societies. Sus hunting and husbandry in particular constitute very important activities in many different periods and areas of the world. There is a wealth of ethnographic studies on human–Sus relations in traditional societies, but this is mainly confined to the South Pacific (e.g. Rappaport 1968; Griffin 1998; Sillitoe 2003). Ethnoarchaeological studies of human–Sus relations are much rarer, though the work carried out by ethnographers has occasionally been used for archaeological interpretations (e.g. Nemeth 1998; Redding & Rosenberg 1998). The geographic bias towards South East Asia, and New Guinea in particular, is understandable when we consider the abundance of wild and domestic pigs in those regions, and the great importance that they have for local economies and societies. Conversely, most of western Asia is dominated by Muslim cultures, where pig husbandry is not practised because of the prohibition of pork consumption (Simoons 1961).
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Killingray, David. "Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European Societies." In Pandemic Re-Awakenings, 63–79. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843739.003.0003.

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The influenza pandemic of 1918–19 struck hardest the native peoples of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific. These were societies largely subject to varieties of colonial control, predominantly non-industrial and non-literate, and with low resistance to ‘old-world’ diseases. Memories of these sudden disastrous personal and communal tragedies have been retrieved from oral accounts. In east and central Africa, memory of flu was often overwhelmed by bitter recall of the social and economic miseries caused by the long and exploitative brutal First World War. Enduring memories of the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa have been perpetuated in the many flourishing indigenous new religious movements spawned during this ‘crisis of comprehension’. High flu death rates in many Pacific islands were mentally subsumed as a continuation of the equally harsh ‘Western’ diseases that had hit the region since the nineteenth century. One immediate response was anti-colonial political activity, although in certain islands the excesses of the Second World War were more readily recalled than the high death rates of 1918–19.
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Santamaria, Angela, Monica Acosta, and Mauricio Alejandro Fernandez. "Transitional Justice and Indigenous Jurisdictions Processes in Colombia." In Indigenous Studies, 686–710. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0423-9.ch035.

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Transitional justice and its range of mechanisms and goals appear to be an important debate about how to deal with past human rights abuses in transition societies or post conflicts. Because of the Peace and Justice Law 975 of 2005 and the actual Colombian scenario of a peace process between the Colombian state and FARC, the analysis of this kind of “justice” and the indigenous jurisdiction appear to be a complex subject in Colombia. The authors would like to discuss, the different uses of international and national laws concerning Indigenous peoples in Colombia, as a social process of complex interactions involving different types of agents (State actors, NGOs, international organizations, indigenous organizations, lawyers, etc.). In addition, it will be important to discuss how the transitional justice framework in Colombia brings up some incongruence to coordinate and apply concepts accordingly to the indigenous jurisdiction, drawing on four case studies and ethnographical work dealing with the international production of customary law.
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Fuller, Jennifer. "The Islanders Speak: Pacific Reflections in the British Press." In Dark Paradise. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413848.003.0006.

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The final chapter looks at the works of Pacific islanders that were published and circulated by the British press and that have remained almost invisible to literary critics. While influenced and edited by the British, the stories of Lee Boo, Ta’unga, and Queen Emma provide a small glimpse into the ways in which Pacific peoples viewed the British and how the British, in turn, conceived of islanders. The History of Lee Boo, while lacking historical accuracy, presents the islanders as complex individuals unable to be categorized simply as “noble savages” or in need of a superior civilizing force. Instead, Lee Boo shows islanders as having the desire and ability to improve their own societies. Ta’unga’s writings provide a very different perspective on missionary enterprises. While Ta’unga agrees with the Christian missions, his account shows the tensions between understanding and respecting Polynesian traditions and his desire to spread the gospel. Finally, the legend of Queen Emma undermines the British narrative of white male colonial superiority over the islands. With her mixed heritage as well as her gender, Emma flaunted tradition and presented a new vision of agency.
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Basu, Kaushik. "On the Road." In An Economist's Miscellany, 48–94. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190120894.003.0004.

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This is a chapter of travel and travelogue and describes the author’s encounters in various places and with various peoples, from India’s remote northeast and rural Bengal, through Israel, Italy, and Germany, to the people of Samoa in the Pacific and the Zapotecs of Teotitlan de Valle in Mexico. It is a commentary on the diversity of cultures across the world, but also an account of the underlying similarities of emotions and instincts across societies separated by continents and seas, with little overt interaction.
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"Pacific Salmon: Ecology and Management of Western Alaska’s Populations." In Pacific Salmon: Ecology and Management of Western Alaska’s Populations, edited by David Policansky. American Fisheries Society, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781934874110.ch51.

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<em>Abstract.</em>—Salmon (<em>Oncorhynchus </em>spp. and Atlantic Salmon <em>Salmo salar</em>) hold an unusual place among fishes due to their importance in cultures as food, sport fish, and as foci of political conflicts. They also are unusual in their anadromy, being important to freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. This paper discusses five National Research Council studies of how to understand and sustain salmon in their various environments in Maine, the Pacific Northwest, and western Alaska. Lessons are formulated from a comparison of the studies that apply to all three regions as well as those that seem to apply only locally. The paper includes consideration of variations in life histories and abundance among the species as well as variations in physical environments and human societies in the places where salmon live.
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