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Sixth Conference of the
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
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Pacific Challenges: Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts
Marseille (France), 6-8 July 2005
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01: Colonial grievances info | papers
02: Reshaping Indigenous worlds info | papers
03: Dynamics of Pacific Religiosity info | papers
04: Mapping Oceania info | papers
05: Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity info | papers
06: Cultural festivals info | papers
07: Enchantments of technology info | papers
08: Ownership in effect info | papers
09: Spiritual material info | papers
10: Endangered Languages info | papers
11: Transculturation info | papers
12: New Caledonia in Oceania info | papers
13: Keynotes info | papers
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| id: | 4 | | Title: | Mapping Oceania Past and Present: Movements, Geographies, Identities | | Number of papers: | 17 | | Organizers: | Di Piazza, Anne
(CNRS-CREDO, Marseilles, France)
Kempf, Wolfgang
(University of Göttingen, Germany)
Pearthree, Erik
(CNRS-CREDO, Marseilles, France) | | Abstract: | Oceania has always been home to movements and extensions, to contacts and articulations. Here we see a field for dialogue and exchange between different disciplines and perspectives. This session seeks to bring together contributions on a broad range of themes and models, times and spaces. Thus, our first main topic will be early projects to settle the Pacific, recent computer simulations of migratory routes plus emergent modes of representing maritime space (such as drawings in the sand, maps made from sticks, shells and bits of coral and other spatio-temporal images). A second focus of the session will be the epoch of cultural upheavals and cleavages, displacements and relocalisations, as wrought by imperial leverage and hegemonic penetration. Finally, we will consider contemporary transnational flows of migrants, money, ideas and images, with all the implications these carry for the agency and identity of Pacific Islanders, both at home and abroad. Our session navigating these multivalent space-times of Oceanian networks and interdependencies will seek to combine two different strands: one that of spatial anthropology, which has found new life with the appearance of GIS and development of conceptual, analytical and predictive models; the other that of cultural and historical processes involving indigenous constructions and reconfigurations of social-spatial alignments and attachments. Our aim will be to track down and identify those relational constitutings and entwinings of place, culture and identity that are poised between mobility and abiding. |
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