Pacific Realities

Pacific RealitiesIn the context of dramatic changes and processes of glocalization across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional local global dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.

albeit often forgotten connections between the two linguistic and cultural groups revealing the myriad of ways in which they have shared and transformed literature

one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India

Staying true to Sukenick's own creative style

novel excerpts

This chapter reviews consumer attitudes to cultured meat products

where she meets the formerly handsome Khanov

While Darwinian and Freudian theories of vision and sexuality have represented women as lacking visual agency

Xu Fuguan (1903–1982) was one of the most important Confucian scholars of the twentieth century

less reliance on them is necessary for environmental and technical reasons

third-party payers

Two central arguments structure the book: the first is that in modern culture the autonomy of the aesthetic and religious sensibilities has been seriously qualified by an overemphasis on narrowly rational moral interests

observations of national Catholic celebrations