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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Susanne Küchler

Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities

Small island communities such as those in the Pacific have always been prone to explore life and establish trading posts someplace else. Famous illustrations of large scale pre-historic migration movements across wider Oceania are Lapita pottery and the Maori Whare Wanuga traditions whose large-scale distribution in space and time has led scholars to hypothesize the existence of “voyaging corridors” sustaining vast networks of trade and exchange (Pearce and Pearce 2011). Conducting fieldwork today in the Pacific islands, the unpredictable presence of key informants who are regularly on tour to relatives living in the metropolises of the Pacific Rim, Asia, America ...

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