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University of Washington Press Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands (Culture, Place, and Nature)

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Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land use and heritage preservation. As their efforts to establish UNESCO World Heritage status continue, Marquesans grapple with questions about when sites should be preserved intact, when neglect is an appropriate option, and when deterioration resulting from local livelihoods should be accepted. In Working with the Ancestors Emily Donaldson considers how Marquesan perceptions of heritage and mana, or sacred power, have influenced the use of land in the islands and how both cultural and environmental sustainability can be achieved. The Marquesas’ relative geographical isolation and ecological richness are the backdrop for the confluence of international heritage preservation and sustainability efforts that affect both resources and Indigenous peoples. Donaldson demonstrates how anthropological concepts of embodiment, alienation, place, and power can inform global resource management, offering a new approach that integrates analyses of policy, practice, and heritage. Review This well-written and powerful book blends together theoretical foundations, ethnographic examples, and Donaldson's own extensive anthropological fieldwork, presented as a series of vignettes and case studies. Taken together it is a valuable contribution to academic and applied work in heritage studies, development encounters, and tourism in the Pacific.--Pacific Affairs This study...lies at the intersection of various topics and approaches in social anthropology, history and heritage studies and offers an insightful perspective on the case of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia...[B]oth timely and necessary.--Journal of Pacific History This book details how international resource management perspectives conflict with local values: 'the question of how to manage and preserve Marquesan heritage tangles intimately with how to ensure sustainable local livelihoods, now and into the future.' Well-researched, this book commendably documents multiple Marquesan viewpoints. It recommends limiting heritage tourism in favor of agricultural use and advocates incorporating indigenous concerns.--Choice Review Explores the relationship between the Marquesan people and their land, particularly the sites considered sacred (tapu), and interrogates the different understandings of the word ‘heritage.' Author: Carol Ivory, editor of Mata Hoata: Arts et société aux iles Marquises From the Author Emily C. Donaldson is adjunct faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Michael’s College and the University of Vermont. About the Author Emily C. Donaldson is adjunct faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Michael's College and the University of Vermont.

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Brand: University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0295745827
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 July 2019
Listed Since: 20 October 2018

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