1st Edition
Transpacific Americas Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific
Transpacific Americas as Relational Space Philipp Schorch and Eveline Dürr Part 1: Assembling Transpacific Networks and Relations 1. Historicising the "Indigenous International": Museums, Anthropology, and Transpacific Networks Conal McCarthy 2. Performing Transpacific Identities: The Role of Music and Musicians in Interactions Between Easter Island and Chile Dan Bendrups 3. Shadowed Lives: Invisibility and Visibility of Mexicans in Hawai’i Monisha Das Gupta 4. Border Crossings and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Touring Exhibition: An Aotearoa New Zealand – Mexico Exchange Lee Davidson Part 2: Assembling Transpacific Concepts and Ideas 5. Transpacific Discourses of Primitivism and Extinction on "Fuegians" and "Tasmanians" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fernanda Peñaloza 6. Re-assembling Language in Nests: Transpacific Indigenous Strategies for Cultural Revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Mexico Eveline Dürr 7. Disjunctive Policy Assemblages: The New Zealand Model of Welfare Reform in Alberta, Canada Catherine Kingfisher 8. Tangled up in Food: The Moral Economy of Food Politics in the Transpacific Region Alan Smart and Josephine Smart Taualuga: Decolonising and Globalising the Pacific Vilsoni Hereniko
Biography
Eveline Dürr is a Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Philipp Schorch is a Marie Curie Fellow (European Commission) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
