Acclimatising to Higher Ground : The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People.
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship. The People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential connections with Nikunau Atoll, at the centre of the Pacific Ocean and once a Cinderella of the British Empire. The analysis explicates their present diasporic circumstances and the pathways through which these arose historically. The intention is to provide a basis for better prospects for succeeding generations from a critical, better-informed standpoint. The analysis relies on the partisan stance of the author, whose kinship ties with I-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau) are affinal, and his 30-year immersion among the People in question. In addition, a large quantity of literature sources and other secondary data are woven into the analysis, as situations and events are grappled with, articulated, interpreted and written into the book. The circumstances are analysed under 14 themes, namely, geographical, demographical, economic, environmental, cultural, societal, etc. The analysis should stir the waters of recent research about Nikunau and Kiribati, much of it concerned with environmental changes making uninhabitable Nikunau, Tarawa and other atolls where I-Nikunau reside, and imagining their resettlement on higher ground, for example, New Zealand, where several diasporic communities exist already. This recent research refers frequently to the social, cultural and economic matters covered in this book, indicating how relevant and important these
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| Ausgabe | 1st ed. |
| Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
Leiden
: Sidestone Press
, 2021
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| Umfang | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| ISBN | 9789464260311 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Zusatzinfo | Intro -- Introduction -- Research Approach -- 1.1 Validity of Chosen Themes -- 1.3 Empirical Materials -- 1.2 Validity of I-Nikunau as a Study Identity -- 1.2.1 Utu -- 1.4 Intent of Applying My Methods -- I-Nikunau in the Present -- On Nikunau Atoll -- On (South) Tarawa -- Beyond Kiribati -- 4.1 On Great Britain -- 4.2 On Te Ika-a-Maui and Te Waipounamu (Aotearoa New Zealand) -- Retrospective Analysis of I-Nikunau and Interpretation of their Circumstances -- Geographical Circumstances (te mauri) -- 5.2 Diaspora taking Roots -- 5.2.1 Tarawa: Centralisation and Precedence -- 5.2.2 Consequences for I-Nikunau of Centralisation -- 5.2.3 Phoenix, Solomon and Line Islands -- 5.2.4 Metropolitan Countries -- 5.1 Comings and Goings, and Seeds of Diaspora -- Demographical Circumstances (te mauri) -- 6.1 Population of I-Nikunau and of Nikunau -- 6.3 Settlements in the Diaspora -- 6.2 Settlements on Nikunau -- Economic Circumstances (te tabomoa) -- 7.1 Copra and Money and Non-Traditional Entities on Nikunau -- 7.4 Metropolitan Countries -- 7.4.1 Backwash and Spread Effects on Tarawa from Metropolitan Countries -- 7.3 Further Aspects of Economic Change in Kiribati -- 7.3.1 Tarawa's Economy -- 7.3.2 Nikunau's Economy -- 7.2 Dynamics of Economic and Related Developments on and away from Nikunau -- 7.2.1 Bartering with Foreign Visitors -- 7.2.2 Private Trade Stores -- 7.2.3 Cooperative Trade Stores -- Environmental Circumstances (te mauri) -- 8.1 Tarawa's "Worrisome Trend" -- 8.4 Climate Change and Emigration -- 8.4.1 Immigration Information -- 8.3 Diasporic Communities on Higher Ground -- 8.2 On Nikunau -- Biological Circumstances (te mauri) -- Nutritional and Corporeal Circumstances (te mauri) -- 10.1 On Nikunau -- 10.3 Aotearoa New Zealand -- 10.2 Tarawa -- Political Circumstances (te raoi). 11.4 Quasi-traditional Governance on Nikunau and within Diasporic Communities -- 11.3 I-Nikunau in the Political System -- 11.2 From Mwaneaba District Autonomy on Nikunau to Rule from Tarawa -- 11.2.1 I-Nikunau governing themselves traditionally on Nikunau -- 11.2.2 Informal Colonialism on Nikunau -- 11.2.3 British Colonial Rule -- 11.2.4 Rule by I-Kiribati -- 11.1 Government in Kiribati -- Spiritual Circumstances (te raoi) -- 12.3 Consequences of Christianity for I-Nikunau -- 12.2 Religious "Conversion" -- 12.2.1 Fundraising -- 12.1 I-Nikunau's Traditional Spiritual Beliefs -- Educational Circumstances (te mauri) -- 13.1 Outline of Formal Education -- 13.4 Formal Education and its Wider Consequences -- 13.3 Esteem and Impact of Non-Traditional Education -- Qualifying to Emigrate -- Knowledge Varying by Location -- Conflicts between Traditional and Formal Education -- 13.2 Retrospective Analysis of Education on Nikunau and within Kiribati -- 13.2.1 Traditional Education -- 13.2.2 Mission Schools -- 13.2.3 Primary Schools -- 13.2.4 Secondary Schools -- 13.2.5 Tertiary Study -- Social Circumstances (te mauri ao te raoi) -- 14.1 Mwenga as the Basic Kin Units -- 14.7 Social Categories and Resources of a Colonial and Post-Colonial Nature -- 14.6 Genealogical Accounts -- 14.5 Unimane, Unaine and other Age and Gender Statuses -- 14.4 Te Katei ni Kiribati and Differentiation -- 14.3 Aba, Lands and People -- 14.2 Community Activities and Botaki -- Organisational Circumstances (te raoi) -- 15.4 Diasporic Communities -- 15.3 Conflicts between the Traditional and Non-traditional -- 15.2 Colonial and Traditional Traits in Present-day Organisations -- 15.1 Tradition and Effects of Initial Challenges -- 15.1.1 The Maritime Trade -- 15.1.2 Island Administration -- Distributional Circumstances (te tabomoa) -- 16.1 Distributions among I-Nikunau. 16.3 Distributions between I-Nikunau Communities -- 16.2 Distributions between I-Nikunau and Others -- Cultural Circumstances (te raoi) -- 17.2 External Influences on I-Nikunau Culture -- 17.1 I-Nikunau Culture -- Societal Circumstances (te mauri ao te raoi) -- Conclusion -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Blank Page. |
| Andere Ausgaben | Print version:: Acclimatising to Higher Ground. Leiden : Sidestone Press,c2021 |
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