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Note publique d'information : Pacific Islanders make distinctions between themselves and others differently than
Europeans and Americans do. While Westerners tend to see ethnicity as a matter of
"blood" and ancestry, indigenous Pacific theories place more emphasis on environment,
behavior, and performance. Nonetheless, colonization and the spread of Western political
and social strategies have encouraged Islanders, like peoples elsewhere, to adopt
the Western model-despite its foreign nature-when defining themselves as ethnic groups.
Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific contributes a cultural perspective
to ongoing scholarly debates about the nature of ethnicity. The essays focus on symbols,
meanings, and indigenous interpretations of cultural distinctiveness. By investigating
the range of cultural identities found in the modern Pacific, the authors raise provocative
questions about the applicability of ethnicity as a scholarly concept. Although they
do not all reach the same conclusions, all are committed to rethinking conventional
assumptions about group identity. These thoughtful and imaginative essays address
an idea of both theoritical and practical significance. They represent a contribution
not only to Pacific studies but to anthropology and sociology as a whole.
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