Eveline Durr - Transpacific Americas: Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

This volume explores the cultural, social, and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected, and sometimes invisible, Southern linkages, asking how these connections originated and have developed over time, which local responses they have generated, and what impact these processes have in the region in terms of representational forms and strategies, new cultural practices, and the empowerment of individuals in (post)colonial contexts. The volume also compares and contrasts intriguing parallels of politics and identity formation. By extending the focus beyond East Asia to the Southern Pacific region, including Island connections with the Americas, the volume provides a more comprehensive understanding of the recent dynamics and shifting relations across the Pacific. By approaching the Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space that is created and becomes meaningful through multiple localities and their translocal connections, the book complicates the Euro-American distinction between centre and rim. While the collection offers a distinctive geographical focus, it simultaneously emphasises the translocal qualities of specific locations through their entanglements in transpacific assemblages within and across cultural, social, and economic spheres. Furthermore, without neglecting the inextricable historical dimension of anthropological perspectives, the focus is on the diverse and unexpected contemporary forms of cultural, social, and economic encounters and engagements, and on (re)emerging Indigenous networks. Primarily based on empirical research, the volume explores face-to-face encounters, relations from below, and transcultural interactions and relationships in, as well as ideas and conceptualisations of, cultural spaces across localities that have long been perceived as separate, but are indeed closely interconnected.

Eveline Drr is a Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen.

Philipp Schorch is a Marie Curie Fellow (European Commission) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen.

1Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe

The New Strangers

Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune

2The Question of the Gift

Essays across Disciplines

Edited by Mark Osteen

3Decolonising Indigenous Rights

Edited by Adolfo de Oliveira

4Traveling Spirits

Migrants, Markets and Mobilities

Edited by Gertrud Hwelmeier and Kristine Krause

5Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

Edited by Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor

6Confronting Capital

Critique and Engagement in Anthropology

Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem

7Adolescent Identity

Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives

Edited by Bonnie L. Hewlett

8The Social Life of Climate Change Models

Anticipating Nature

Edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup

9Islam, Development, and Urban Womens Reproductive Practices

Cortney Hughes Rinker

10Senses and Citizenships

Embodying Political Life

Edited by Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, and Julie Park

11Environmental Anthropology

Future Directions

Edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

12Times of Security

Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future

Edited by Martin Holbraad and Morten Axel Pedersen

13Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State

The Rising Tide

Peter Rudiak-Gould

14Anthropology and Nature

Edited by Kirsten Hastrup

15Animism and the Question of Life

Istvan Praet

16Anthropology in the Making

Research in Health and Development

Laurent Vidal

17Negotiating Territoriality

Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition

Edited by Allan Charles Dawson, Laura Zanotti and Ismael Vaccaro

18HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine

Anthropological Complicities

Graham Fordham

19Environmentalism, Ethical Trade, and Commodification

Technologies of Value and the Forest Stewardship Council in Chile

Adam Henne

20An Anthropology of Robots and AI

Annihilation Anxiety and Machines

Kathleen Richardson

21An Anthropological Economy of Debt

Edited by Bernard Hours and Pepita Ould Ahmed

22Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research

Tensions and Positionings

Edited by Robert E. Rinehart, Elke Emerald, and Rangi Matamua

23Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds

Edited by Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani

24Magical Consciousness

An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach

Susan E.J. Greenwood and Erik D. Goodwyn

25Diagnostic Controversy

Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare

Edited by Carolyn Smith-Morris

26Transpacific Americas

Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

Edited by Eveline Drr and Philipp Schorch

Edited by Eveline Drr and Philipp Schorch

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Drr, Eveline, editor. | Schorch, Philipp, editor.

Title: Transpacific Americas : encounters and engagements between the Americas and the South Pacific / edited by Eveline Drr and Philipp Schorch.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge studies in anthropology ; 26 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015025793 | ISBN 9781138924437

Subjects: LCSH: EthnologyOceania. | EthnologyAmerica. | Culture diffusionOceania. | Culture diffusionAmerica. | Social changeOceania. | Social changeAmerica.