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Papers by Hermann Mückler
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2020
Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910), the first German administrator (imperial commissioner) assigned to th... more Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910), the first German administrator (imperial commissioner) assigned to the newly acquired Marshall Islands in 1886, created a photo album with pictures, presumably taken by New Zealand photographer Thomas Andrew in the same year. There are at least three existing copies of these albums and a bundle of loose photographs identical to those in the album in question. At the time of Knappe’s arrival in the Marshall Islands, Germany was still in the process of consolidating its newest colonial acquisition. The photographs show both Marshall Islanders untouched by Christian missions and colonial influence, and already ‘civilized’ Indigenous people from various atoll islands of the Ralik- and Ratak-group. The importance of this album results from the fact that it is one of the earliest pictorial records of the Marshall Islands and it probably represents the first documentation of German activities on the eastern Micronesian archipelago. This article highlights the hi...
Pacific Geographies, 2018
A new book, edited by Manfred Ernst and Lydia Johnson, outlines the decline of cooperation among ... more A new book, edited by Manfred Ernst and Lydia Johnson, outlines the decline of cooperation among ecumenical churches in Oceania. Contributions by numerous authors shed light on the situation in the individual island states, point to causes and failures of the past and make recommendations for a future intensification of ecumenical cooperation. The book is both an inventory and a guide.
Pacific Geographies, 2016
From the mid-19th century on, trade cards became a significant medium not only for advertising co... more From the mid-19th century on, trade cards became a significant medium not only for advertising consumer products, but also for promoting and distributing political messages such as the idea of colonization. With regard to the Pacific Islands, the article highlights the role of trade cards as a channel to create a specific image of the Pacific Islands as a region worthy to be colonized, missionized and exploited. A core symbol of this idea figured in the South Seas stereotype which was widely used to merge visions of unspoiled, peaceful island societies and dreams of a paradise on earth, with goals of establishing political control over the islands in the context of the race for colonies of the Western powers in the age of imperialism.
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2021
Review of: Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2... more Review of: Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 348 pp.,ISBN 978 1 90777 445 4 (hbk), £100Made in Niugini: Technology in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 636 pp.,ISBN 978 1 90777 489 8 (hbk), £120
This article gives an overview of the recent state of research about kava, a traditional stimulat... more This article gives an overview of the recent state of research about kava, a traditional stimulating drink which is commonly and widely used throughout the Pacific Islands. Even since the first explorers described the preparation and use of kava, several books and articles were written on this topic. Especially the last five to ten years lifted the veil of pharmacological compound, medical use and influence on health. Therefore this article is focused on the newest information about kava, regarding its increasing importance not only in the Pacific but in the worldwide pharmaceutic industry. The different types and variations of kava, their origin and distribution are examined as well as socio-cultural aspects of the drinking-ceremony. A comparison of a typical kava (or yaqona) -ceremony in Fiji with a kava-ceremony in Tanna, Vanuatu, shows the difference in meaning and importance of kava in contemporary South Pacific societies
The traditional pre-European Fijian society was characterized by a strictly hierarchical chieftai... more The traditional pre-European Fijian society was characterized by a strictly hierarchical chieftainship. One of the chiefs privileges was the prerogative to wear the own hair styled in a specific design or to wear a wig. Both was intended to underline the wearers high position in his own society. It was a men's privilege to style the hair in such a specific way, which was at the same time forbidden for subordinates and loaden with tabus. Beside of its function as decoration, the hairfashion represented status and prestige and acted as a symbol of chiefly authority. Starting with a typical and farcical episode of that era and with a description of modes, function and materials, the importance of the hairfashion will be highlighted in its local political context in a period of time showing radical changes in Fiji at the beginning and in mid 19 th century.
The Australian colonies displayed expansionist tendencies almost from the beginning” is a pointed... more The Australian colonies displayed expansionist tendencies almost from the beginning” is a pointed statement, and there is evidence that Australia exerted its influence on and expanded its spheres of interest to neighbouring territories in Melanesia and in the Pacific region as a whole almost from the beginning of its existence. This article gives an overview about Australia acting as a hegemonic power in the Pacific Islands before World War I, its engagement in the decades afterwards, and its regional political involvement recently, perceived and interpreted from a European viewpoint. keywords: History, colonialism, expansionism, hegemonial influence.
Melanesia and its diversity of cultures is usually seen as the hub of cargo-cults and other nativ... more Melanesia and its diversity of cultures is usually seen as the hub of cargo-cults and other nativistic and millenaristic movements. The A. focuses on the main approaches of anthropologists to describe the dynamics of the cults, summarizes anthropological theories and questions of terminology about motives and consequences and tries to explain changing attitudes of modern movements facing new political developments and social problems at the beginning of a new millenium.
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Anthropos, 2020
making water distinct in particular contexts. At the same time, "the device" presents a heuristic... more making water distinct in particular contexts. At the same time, "the device" presents a heuristic guide for how to think across contexts where distinctions and possibilities are also alert to material and social differences. Who is the audience for "A Future History of Water"? Intellectually, it is for those who are less interested in refining or rehashing debates over water as a commodity versus water as a human right and much more for those interested in reposing these contentious issues. Those, that is, who are interested in how different distinctions are identified, developed, contested, or abandoned as bifurcations are made, remade, and their consequences lived with. Practically, "A Future History of Water" should be on shelves of water scholars interested in the intersections of politics, economics, and the material relations of water. It will make an excellent contribution to courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in anthropology and critical social sciences. The book's title bifurcation-of future and historycarries the reader through to Ballestero's concluding arguments regarding how acting on and through different devices has multiple dynamics. Devices, if thought of in a temporal register, make distinctions that are both responsive to contemporary and historical dynamics while also generating new possibilities. The work of new distinctions going forward is only partially prefigured, however, much less predicted. So, the technopolitical work of devices is not constrained by features of design alone; or of institutions, or of policies, or prices. Instead, at least for Ballestero, devices harbor potential moments of wonder, moments that arise "when we look at the world around us and see the strangeness of the ties that keep it together and break it apart" (199). They do so not by virtue of being an unusual feature of water and social relations but rather by being a ubiquitous aspect of drawing distinctions and living with their possibilities. This is all the more so when the devices make distinctions affecting social entanglements with water.
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2019
This article focuses on the depiction of the iconographically significant subject of the Melanesi... more This article focuses on the depiction of the iconographically significant subject of the Melanesian tree house in the popular medium of the trade or collectors card. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, the new and innovative medium of the trade card had gained great importance in Europe and the United States as a colourful form of advertising through the use of the new printing technique of chromolithography. The resulting striking designs were not only used to advertise consumer products but also to convey information on overseas countries to an increasingly interested domestic population. In particular, countries engaged in overseas colonialism used the medium to provide information about exotic countries and the civilizing goals of the colonial powers. Using the example of the unique and spectacular tree houses that existed in Oceania, predominantly in New Guinea, this article explores the variations of this motif on trade and collectors cards. The conclusion is that these cards, while serving exoticism, contain only limited ethnologically useful information. Nevertheless, the trade cards are valuable testimonies to the European-overseas relationship, in which clichés such as the romantic idea of the 'South Seas' found their expression. Ultimately, the trade cards say more about the colonizing European countries and their prejudiced keywords trade cards cigarette cards early advertising tree houses New Guinea visual anthropology 1. Parts of this article were previously published in German in Mückler (2016a). See also Mückler (2016b).
Der (Alb)traum vom Kalifat, 2016
Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: the children of indigenous women and US Servicemen, World... more Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: the children of indigenous women and US Servicemen, World War II (2015) is written 74 years after the arrival of United States servicemen to the Pacific Islands during the Second World War. The cover image of two servicemen flanking an unnamed indigenous woman holding a baby was taken r months after the arrival of US forces in Tonga in 1942. The work of the editors and co-authors Judith Bennett and Angela Wanhalla alongside the contribution of seven authors has culminated in an important text. This book acknowledges a gap in the military history of World War II which it proposes to fill, that of women, Pacific Islanders and the intimacy of encounter. The war stories of relationships formed between indigenous women and US servicemen stationed in the Pacific are lived experiences retold by their children, many of whom for various reasons were left behind. As the epilogue states "[t]hese children, however, are the embodiment of the human cost of war. Like their mothers, their lives are marked by war, and they live with its legacies. For them, the war never ended, it is still unfolding as they search for their American father. The 'always after' of their stories continue" (p.308). The geographic coverage is extensive with case studies
Mitteilungen Der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 2003
The A. highlights the extreme conditions, Pacific Islanders and especially people from Micronesia... more The A. highlights the extreme conditions, Pacific Islanders and especially people from Micronesia have to face in an environmentally hostile area. Special forms of adaptation visible in concepts of space, orientation, navigation, boat building and migration are discussed. Traditional knowledge, best recognized in the Marshallese navigation charts and the Eastern Micronesian outrigger boats, is described to explain the people's close link to the sea and their capability to cross long distances over open sea. This sense of mobility continues in present times where a great number of people are overseas as working migrants. Many of them work again on ships.
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2020
Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910), the first German administrator (imperial commissioner) assigned to th... more Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910), the first German administrator (imperial commissioner) assigned to the newly acquired Marshall Islands in 1886, created a photo album with pictures, presumably taken by New Zealand photographer Thomas Andrew in the same year. There are at least three existing copies of these albums and a bundle of loose photographs identical to those in the album in question. At the time of Knappe’s arrival in the Marshall Islands, Germany was still in the process of consolidating its newest colonial acquisition. The photographs show both Marshall Islanders untouched by Christian missions and colonial influence, and already ‘civilized’ Indigenous people from various atoll islands of the Ralik- and Ratak-group. The importance of this album results from the fact that it is one of the earliest pictorial records of the Marshall Islands and it probably represents the first documentation of German activities on the eastern Micronesian archipelago. This article highlights the hi...
Pacific Geographies, 2018
A new book, edited by Manfred Ernst and Lydia Johnson, outlines the decline of cooperation among ... more A new book, edited by Manfred Ernst and Lydia Johnson, outlines the decline of cooperation among ecumenical churches in Oceania. Contributions by numerous authors shed light on the situation in the individual island states, point to causes and failures of the past and make recommendations for a future intensification of ecumenical cooperation. The book is both an inventory and a guide.
Pacific Geographies, 2016
From the mid-19th century on, trade cards became a significant medium not only for advertising co... more From the mid-19th century on, trade cards became a significant medium not only for advertising consumer products, but also for promoting and distributing political messages such as the idea of colonization. With regard to the Pacific Islands, the article highlights the role of trade cards as a channel to create a specific image of the Pacific Islands as a region worthy to be colonized, missionized and exploited. A core symbol of this idea figured in the South Seas stereotype which was widely used to merge visions of unspoiled, peaceful island societies and dreams of a paradise on earth, with goals of establishing political control over the islands in the context of the race for colonies of the Western powers in the age of imperialism.
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2021
Review of: Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2... more Review of: Built in Niugini: Constructions in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 348 pp.,ISBN 978 1 90777 445 4 (hbk), £100Made in Niugini: Technology in The Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Paul Sillitoe (2017)Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 636 pp.,ISBN 978 1 90777 489 8 (hbk), £120
This article gives an overview of the recent state of research about kava, a traditional stimulat... more This article gives an overview of the recent state of research about kava, a traditional stimulating drink which is commonly and widely used throughout the Pacific Islands. Even since the first explorers described the preparation and use of kava, several books and articles were written on this topic. Especially the last five to ten years lifted the veil of pharmacological compound, medical use and influence on health. Therefore this article is focused on the newest information about kava, regarding its increasing importance not only in the Pacific but in the worldwide pharmaceutic industry. The different types and variations of kava, their origin and distribution are examined as well as socio-cultural aspects of the drinking-ceremony. A comparison of a typical kava (or yaqona) -ceremony in Fiji with a kava-ceremony in Tanna, Vanuatu, shows the difference in meaning and importance of kava in contemporary South Pacific societies
The traditional pre-European Fijian society was characterized by a strictly hierarchical chieftai... more The traditional pre-European Fijian society was characterized by a strictly hierarchical chieftainship. One of the chiefs privileges was the prerogative to wear the own hair styled in a specific design or to wear a wig. Both was intended to underline the wearers high position in his own society. It was a men's privilege to style the hair in such a specific way, which was at the same time forbidden for subordinates and loaden with tabus. Beside of its function as decoration, the hairfashion represented status and prestige and acted as a symbol of chiefly authority. Starting with a typical and farcical episode of that era and with a description of modes, function and materials, the importance of the hairfashion will be highlighted in its local political context in a period of time showing radical changes in Fiji at the beginning and in mid 19 th century.
The Australian colonies displayed expansionist tendencies almost from the beginning” is a pointed... more The Australian colonies displayed expansionist tendencies almost from the beginning” is a pointed statement, and there is evidence that Australia exerted its influence on and expanded its spheres of interest to neighbouring territories in Melanesia and in the Pacific region as a whole almost from the beginning of its existence. This article gives an overview about Australia acting as a hegemonic power in the Pacific Islands before World War I, its engagement in the decades afterwards, and its regional political involvement recently, perceived and interpreted from a European viewpoint. keywords: History, colonialism, expansionism, hegemonial influence.
Melanesia and its diversity of cultures is usually seen as the hub of cargo-cults and other nativ... more Melanesia and its diversity of cultures is usually seen as the hub of cargo-cults and other nativistic and millenaristic movements. The A. focuses on the main approaches of anthropologists to describe the dynamics of the cults, summarizes anthropological theories and questions of terminology about motives and consequences and tries to explain changing attitudes of modern movements facing new political developments and social problems at the beginning of a new millenium.
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Die Außenpolitik der Staaten Ozeaniens, 2010
Anthropos, 2020
making water distinct in particular contexts. At the same time, "the device" presents a heuristic... more making water distinct in particular contexts. At the same time, "the device" presents a heuristic guide for how to think across contexts where distinctions and possibilities are also alert to material and social differences. Who is the audience for "A Future History of Water"? Intellectually, it is for those who are less interested in refining or rehashing debates over water as a commodity versus water as a human right and much more for those interested in reposing these contentious issues. Those, that is, who are interested in how different distinctions are identified, developed, contested, or abandoned as bifurcations are made, remade, and their consequences lived with. Practically, "A Future History of Water" should be on shelves of water scholars interested in the intersections of politics, economics, and the material relations of water. It will make an excellent contribution to courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in anthropology and critical social sciences. The book's title bifurcation-of future and historycarries the reader through to Ballestero's concluding arguments regarding how acting on and through different devices has multiple dynamics. Devices, if thought of in a temporal register, make distinctions that are both responsive to contemporary and historical dynamics while also generating new possibilities. The work of new distinctions going forward is only partially prefigured, however, much less predicted. So, the technopolitical work of devices is not constrained by features of design alone; or of institutions, or of policies, or prices. Instead, at least for Ballestero, devices harbor potential moments of wonder, moments that arise "when we look at the world around us and see the strangeness of the ties that keep it together and break it apart" (199). They do so not by virtue of being an unusual feature of water and social relations but rather by being a ubiquitous aspect of drawing distinctions and living with their possibilities. This is all the more so when the devices make distinctions affecting social entanglements with water.
Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 2019
This article focuses on the depiction of the iconographically significant subject of the Melanesi... more This article focuses on the depiction of the iconographically significant subject of the Melanesian tree house in the popular medium of the trade or collectors card. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, the new and innovative medium of the trade card had gained great importance in Europe and the United States as a colourful form of advertising through the use of the new printing technique of chromolithography. The resulting striking designs were not only used to advertise consumer products but also to convey information on overseas countries to an increasingly interested domestic population. In particular, countries engaged in overseas colonialism used the medium to provide information about exotic countries and the civilizing goals of the colonial powers. Using the example of the unique and spectacular tree houses that existed in Oceania, predominantly in New Guinea, this article explores the variations of this motif on trade and collectors cards. The conclusion is that these cards, while serving exoticism, contain only limited ethnologically useful information. Nevertheless, the trade cards are valuable testimonies to the European-overseas relationship, in which clichés such as the romantic idea of the 'South Seas' found their expression. Ultimately, the trade cards say more about the colonizing European countries and their prejudiced keywords trade cards cigarette cards early advertising tree houses New Guinea visual anthropology 1. Parts of this article were previously published in German in Mückler (2016a). See also Mückler (2016b).
Der (Alb)traum vom Kalifat, 2016
Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: the children of indigenous women and US Servicemen, World... more Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: the children of indigenous women and US Servicemen, World War II (2015) is written 74 years after the arrival of United States servicemen to the Pacific Islands during the Second World War. The cover image of two servicemen flanking an unnamed indigenous woman holding a baby was taken r months after the arrival of US forces in Tonga in 1942. The work of the editors and co-authors Judith Bennett and Angela Wanhalla alongside the contribution of seven authors has culminated in an important text. This book acknowledges a gap in the military history of World War II which it proposes to fill, that of women, Pacific Islanders and the intimacy of encounter. The war stories of relationships formed between indigenous women and US servicemen stationed in the Pacific are lived experiences retold by their children, many of whom for various reasons were left behind. As the epilogue states "[t]hese children, however, are the embodiment of the human cost of war. Like their mothers, their lives are marked by war, and they live with its legacies. For them, the war never ended, it is still unfolding as they search for their American father. The 'always after' of their stories continue" (p.308). The geographic coverage is extensive with case studies
Mitteilungen Der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 2003
The A. highlights the extreme conditions, Pacific Islanders and especially people from Micronesia... more The A. highlights the extreme conditions, Pacific Islanders and especially people from Micronesia have to face in an environmentally hostile area. Special forms of adaptation visible in concepts of space, orientation, navigation, boat building and migration are discussed. Traditional knowledge, best recognized in the Marshallese navigation charts and the Eastern Micronesian outrigger boats, is described to explain the people's close link to the sea and their capability to cross long distances over open sea. This sense of mobility continues in present times where a great number of people are overseas as working migrants. Many of them work again on ships.
Band 146 der Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien behandelt das Thema „Wohnen ... more Band 146 der Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien behandelt das Thema „Wohnen und Wohnraum“ aus den Fächern Archäologie, Anthropologie, Volkskunde und Völkerkunde.
Wohnen und Wohnraum bietet nicht nur Schutz vor den Elementen, vor Kälte und Hitze, es spricht verschiedene Grundbedürfnisse im Menschen an. Neben Schutz und Geborgenheit dient Wohnraum auch als soziales Umfeld, zur Repräsentation und sogar zur Selbstverwirklichung. Dies suggerieren effektvoll Fernsehshows, Werbung und Home-Stories in Boulevardblättern. Doch „Schöner Wohnen“ ist kein modernes Zeitgeistphänomen, sondern findet sich quer durch die Geschichte und auf allen Kontinenten.
Das Thema Wohnen und Wohnraum begleitet den Menschen nicht erst ab der Zeit, in der die ersten neolithischen Bauernkulturen Häuser und erste Dörfer schufen. Auch Jäger und Sammlergesellschaften gestalten ihren – oft nur temporär bzw. mobil genutzen – Wohnraum.
Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der systematischen Erschließung und Kolonisierung Ozeaniens vom aus... more Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der systematischen Erschließung und Kolonisierung Ozeaniens vom ausgehenden 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Die Kolonisierung folgte auf die Phase der Entdeckungsgeschichte. Walfänger, Händler und erste Siedler waren die Wegbereiter für spätere koloniale Landnahme und es kam bald zu einem Wettrennen der europäischen Mächte und der US-Amerikaner um die strategische Positionierung und die Sicherung der Ressourcen. Die massive europäisch-amerikanische
Einflussnahme in Ozeanien brachte dramatische Veränderungen für die indigenen Gesellschaften mit sich – durch die Vermittlung neuer Wertmaßstäbe sowie ihre schrittweise Einbindung in die Geldökonomie und die flächendeckend organisierte Ausbeutung der vorhandenen Ressourcen. Der Band beleuchtet die verschiedenen Facetten der Beziehung zwischen Einheimischen und Kolonisten und vergleicht die unterschiedlichen Zugänge, Strategien und Zielsetzungen der einzelnen Kolonialmächte im sogenannten „Zeitalter des Imperialismus“.
Die protestantische und katholische Missionierung Ozeaniens zählt zu den spannendsten, aber auch ... more Die protestantische und katholische Missionierung Ozeaniens zählt zu den spannendsten, aber auch kontroversen Kapiteln der westlich-überseeischen Begegnung. Sie prägte die pazifische Inselwelt nachhaltig und wirkt bis heute in viele Gesell schaftsbereiche entscheidend hinein. Der Band gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über die Anfänge der Mission und die schrittweise Erschließung der Region und thematisiert anhand von Beispielen die Schwierigkeiten, Konfrontationen und Wechselbeziehungen zwischen kolonialen Interessenvertretern, indigenen Bevölkerungen, Ethnologen und der Mission.
Ein lexikalischer Teil mit über 800 Kurzbiographien der wichtigsten Missionare, Missionsbrüder und -schwestern ergänzt den Band und gibt lebendigen Einblick in deren Missionstätigkeit.
Die Kulturregion Ozeanien – untergliedert in Melanesien, Polynesien und Mikronesien – ist aufgrun... more Die Kulturregion Ozeanien – untergliedert in Melanesien, Polynesien und Mikronesien – ist aufgrund der ethnischen, kulturellen und sprachlichen Vielfalt ihrer Bewohner weltweit einzigartig und stellt wegen ihrer Ausmaße und geographischen Extreme eine Region der Superlative dar. Die indigenen Bevöl-kerungen dieser Inselwelt mussten in Prozessen der Akkulturation und Transkulturation in den vergangenen 200 Jahren ihren Bezug zu Status, Tradition, Alltag und Berufsleben unaufhörlich neu definieren.
Diesen Kulturwandel wie auch die politischen Entwicklun- gen der einzelnen Staaten veranschaulicht der Autor exemplarisch anhand der Darstellung von lokalen sozialen Strukturen, Kulten und Ritualen, religiösen Vorstellungen, Aspekten der materiellen Kultur, Weltbild und Wertvorstellungen. Viele Illustrationen, eine umfangreiche Bibliographie, eine Chronologie der euro- päischen Entdeckungsgeschichte und ein Register vervollständigen das Bild.
Band 145, 2015 der Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien widmet sich dem Themen... more Band 145, 2015 der Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien widmet sich dem Themenkomplex „Symbole und Rituale“, im Sinne der Gesellschaft mit Beiträgen aus Archäologie, Anthropologie, Volks- und Völkerkunde. Symbole und Rituale sind etwas zutiefst Menschliches, Universalia humana, mit denen wir unserem Dasein Bedeutung verleihen. Wir ordnen und rhythmisieren mit Ritualen den Tages- und Jahrsablauf, sowie die einzelnen Lebensabschnitte. Symbole finden sich überall – ob nun bewusst wahrgenommen und als metaphorische Ebene integriert oder als unbewusste, alt tradierte Motivik. Symbole zieren viele Gegenstände, mit denen wir täglich hantieren, sie fließen überall mit in unsere Umgebung ein, sei es bei Haus- oder Gartengestaltung, oder selbst in modernsten Bereichen.
Dieser Band ist der vierte und letzte des vierbändigen Kompendiums zur Kulturgeschichte Ozeaniens... more Dieser Band ist der vierte und letzte des vierbändigen Kompendiums zur Kulturgeschichte Ozeaniens!
Die Kolonisierung und die Ereignisse des Pazifikkrieges prägten die Bewohner Ozeaniens in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. In den Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg strebten die meisten Inselgruppen ihre Unabhängigkeit von kolonialer Einflussnahme an. Erwartungen und Hoffnungen in den neu entstandenen Staaten erfüllten sich jedoch in den ersten Jahrzehnten der Selbstständigkeit nicht überall in gleichem Maße. Der Band beleuchtet die verbliebenen Kolonien, die Phase der Entkolonisierung und alle zentralen Konflikte der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in den neu entstandenen Staaten sowie deren Lösungsversuche vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmend vernetzten Welt.