"Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers. He begins his study by asking why there are so few uses of flowers in Africa, either domesticated or wild, either in reality or in representation, and goes on to initiate a world-wide enqui…
This book explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communic…
'The Post-Political and its Discontents' provides a theoretical and practical interrogation of how the post-political has come to dominate governance.
This important work introduces a critical theoretical perspective to the study of social change in the Pacific islands, a subject which has long been dominated by ethnographic studies. The islands covered are Hawai'i, French Polynesia, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, New Cale…
First published in 1992. The Pacific Ocean is the largest geographical feature on the face of the earth, covering about one third of its entire surface. Occupying part of that large expanse are the far-flung islands of the Pacific. As the papers of this volume clearly indicate, …
This important work introduces a critical theoretical perspective to the study of social change in the Pacific islands, a subject which has long been dominated by ethnographic studies. The islands covered are Hawai'i, French Polynesia, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, New Cale…