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By Serge Tcherkézoff, Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
The texts accrued during this quantity take an anthropological method of the diversity of up to date societal difficulties which confront the peoples of the modern South Pacific: non secular revival, the sociology of family members among neighborhood teams, areas and geographical regions, the matter of tradition components, where of democracy within the transition of States based on sacred chiefdoms, the position of ceremonial exchanges in a marketplace financial system, and so on. every one bankruptcy offers a society obvious from a selected perspective, yet consistently near to the difficulty of collective identification and its war of words with historical past and alter. the gathering therefore invitations the reader to appreciate how the population of those societies search to verify either someone id and a feeling of belonging to the modern international. In doing so, it informs the reader in regards to the modern realities skilled through the population of the South Pacific, with the intention to contributing to an intercultural discussion among the reader and those population.
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Increasingly the Baruya kill pigs in order to sell the meat, this at extremely high prices as well. The rule is to make as much money as possible, makim bisnis. The women too have entered the market economy. Almost every day a hundred or so of them come to sit near the medical centre, laying out in front of them several kilos of sweet potatoes and bananas and exchanging recent gossip while waiting for customers. Towards midday they return to their villages, most having sold nothing. They then eat what they had come to sell – which had not, in any case, been produced for sale.
Mana, a term that is both Polynesian and Melanesian, is an active, mobile force capable of assuming any shape. ; Mauss 1904, 1906, 1925; for more on mana one can also consult Fournier 1994 and Tcherkézoff 1991, 1995a). See the historical, geographical and social atlas published by Antheaume and Bonnemaison (1988). The first aim was to let other parts of the world know that Pacific basin cultures have a tradition of reaching political decisions by ‘consensus’ (in contrast to majority rule), which is a way of making peace between diverging views, whereas voting ratifies the victory of one group over another (on the logic of consensus, see Chapter 12, this volume and the reference in note 12, below).
These areas, because they are the most global system of belonging for everyone, represent the first level of the model. In these domains, various concomitant facts can be juxtaposed whose simultaneous presence is contradictory only on a second level, where it creates a sort of space in which the superiorities are indeed inverted, but which remains encompassed by the broader space of the initial references. A host of imported technical objects and monetary practices have thus entered into Samoan society without calling the matai system into question.