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Flowers, fale, fanua and fa'a Polynesia / edited by Richard Bedford, Robyn Longhurst and Yvonne Underhill-Sem.

Title
Flowers, fale, fanua and fa'a Polynesia / edited by Richard Bedford, Robyn Longhurst and Yvonne Underhill-Sem.
Publication
Wollongong [N.S.W.] : APMRN Secretariat Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Bedford, Richard.
  • Longhurst, Robyn.
  • Underhill-Sem, Yvonne.
  • Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network
  • MOST (Program : Unesco)
Description
ix, 95 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Working paper series / Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network, 1328-2530 ; no. 8
Uniform Title
Working papers series (Asia-Pacific Migration Research Network) ; no. 8.
Subject
  • Flowers > Polynesia > Folklore > Congresses
  • Gardening > Polynesia > Congresses
  • Land tenure > Polynesia > Congresses
  • Polynesia > Social life and customs > Congresses
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • "Made possible by the financial support of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme of the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO"--p. vii.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
INTRODUCTIONS: -- Transformation of domestic environments : an ignored dimension of transnational communities / Richard Bedford -- Population mobility and the environment in Polynesia : new perspectives on an old theme / Yvonne Underhill-Sem -- FROM SAMOA -- TO THE COOK ISLANDS -- TO TONGA -- Flowers and the Church in Samoa / Ruta Fiti-Sinclair -- Contemporary responses to commercial flower production opportunities in Samoa / Asenati Liki -- Flowering identities in Samoa and the Cook Islands : population mobility and environmental transformation in the Eastern Pacific / Yvonne Underhill-Sem -- What Samoans want today is 'a quarter acre section of freehold' / Peggy Fairburn-Dunlop -- Changes and choices in Tonga : the significance of conspicuous construction / Wendy Cowling -- THE PACIFIC IN NEW ZEALAND -- Some changes and continuities in the gardening practices of Samoans in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Ieti Lima -- Growing cultures : subtropical gardening in New Zealand / Robyn Longhurst -- Power relations between two different worlds : commercialisation of a non-domesticated indigenous plant / Pania Melbourne.
OCLC
  • 58800279
  • SCSB-10532062
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library