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• catalog abstract ""Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atoll's limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes." "Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the community's intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Anthropology online. net".
• catalog contributor b12175767.
• catalog contributor b12175768.
• catalog coverage "Nanumea (Tuvalu) Social life and customs.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atoll's limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes." "Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the community's intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Encountering Nanumea -- Learning to Speak -- Fieldwork Methods -- A Second Chance -- A Third Visit -- Seeking Feedback -- Looking Back over a Quarter Century -- "Of the Island" -- Tefolaha in the Cookhouse -- Family Corporations -- A Cookhouse Encounter -- Community Foundations -- Myths and "Reality" -- Emerging from the "Days of Darkness" -- Dating Tefolaha -- Precontact Society -- Themes in Nanumean Traditional History -- Explorers and Whalers -- Missionaries -- Traders, Beachcombers, and Sailors -- Under Colonial Administration -- The War Years -- Passage to Independence -- Coral and Sand -- A Marginal Human Habitat -- "What Do We Rely on for Life?" -- Shared Estates -- Working the Lands -- Coconut and Water -- Root Crops and Prestige -- Using the Sea -- Something for All -- Categorizing Exchange -- Sharing and Compassion -- Sharing in Practice -- The Local Cooperative Store -- Dilemmas Facing Entrepreneurs -- Group Selling -- Household Strategies for Making Money -- Changes in Cash Income -- Family Matters -- Networks of Kin -- Clues about Family Relationships -- Balancing Respect and Caring -- To Marry or Not to Marry -- Children as a Blessing -- Household Dynamics -- Community -- Community Organization -- Heart of the Community -- Service-Oriented Leadership -- Getting Along Together -- Heirs of Tefolaha -- Challenges of the Twenty-first Century -- Rising Sea Levels -- Local Identity, National Identity, and Pressures for Westernization -- Inroads of Capitalism -- Equality under Threat -- Leadership Issues.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273).".
• catalog extent "xx, 283 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Unity of heart.".
• catalog identifier "1577661664".
• catalog isFormatOf "Unity of heart.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press,".
• catalog relation "Unity of heart.".
• catalog spatial "Nanumea (Tuvalu) Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Tuvalu Nanumea.".
• catalog subject "306".
• catalog subject "Ethnology Tuvalu Nanumea.".
• catalog subject "GN671.T88 C43 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "Encountering Nanumea -- Learning to Speak -- Fieldwork Methods -- A Second Chance -- A Third Visit -- Seeking Feedback -- Looking Back over a Quarter Century -- "Of the Island" -- Tefolaha in the Cookhouse -- Family Corporations -- A Cookhouse Encounter -- Community Foundations -- Myths and "Reality" -- Emerging from the "Days of Darkness" -- Dating Tefolaha -- Precontact Society -- Themes in Nanumean Traditional History -- Explorers and Whalers -- Missionaries -- Traders, Beachcombers, and Sailors -- Under Colonial Administration -- The War Years -- Passage to Independence -- Coral and Sand -- A Marginal Human Habitat -- "What Do We Rely on for Life?" -- Shared Estates -- Working the Lands -- Coconut and Water -- Root Crops and Prestige -- Using the Sea -- Something for All -- Categorizing Exchange -- Sharing and Compassion -- Sharing in Practice -- The Local Cooperative Store -- Dilemmas Facing Entrepreneurs -- Group Selling -- Household Strategies for Making Money -- Changes in Cash Income -- Family Matters -- Networks of Kin -- Clues about Family Relationships -- Balancing Respect and Caring -- To Marry or Not to Marry -- Children as a Blessing -- Household Dynamics -- Community -- Community Organization -- Heart of the Community -- Service-Oriented Leadership -- Getting Along Together -- Heirs of Tefolaha -- Challenges of the Twenty-first Century -- Rising Sea Levels -- Local Identity, National Identity, and Pressures for Westernization -- Inroads of Capitalism -- Equality under Threat -- Leadership Issues.".
• catalog title "Unity of heart : culture and change in a Polynesian atoll society / Keith Chambers, Anne Chambers.".
• catalog type "text".