Germany and the Pacific Islands: A Cross‐cultural Marketing Study

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Hugh E. Kramer ◽  
Paul A. Herbig
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Cultural Marketing

Researching early photography of the Pacific Islands: An overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Max Quanchi
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Early Photography

Historical research on the early years of photography in the Pacific Islands has revealed changes in the practice of photography, the development of Pacific imagery, tropes and stereotypes and changes in the ways images were distributed, archived and used in modern contexts. Research in the field was initially focused on photography’s indexical nature and the role of professional and amateur photographers, travellers, colonial officials and missionaries. The research highlighted here, only in the English language and excluding Aotearoa/New Zealand, reveals how later analyses have begun to grow more theoretical, in keeping with postcolonial approaches to reading cross-cultural representation, and how new directions in research point towards the nature of Indigenous engagement with early photography.

Oceania, 800-1800CE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Flexner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Old World ◽  
Political Evolution ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific

Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. Polynesian navigators encountered previously uninhabited lands, as well as already inhabited islands and the coast of the Americas. Island societies saw epic sagas of political competition and intrigue, documented through oral traditions and the monuments and artefacts recovered through archaeology. European entry into the region added a new episode of interaction with strange people from over the horizon. These histories provide an important cross-cultural perspective for the concept of 'the Middle Ages' from outside of the usual Old World focus.

scholarly journals South Pacific Work Research Project - A Progress Report

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Pacific

This project, which began in 1976, consists of a series of interlinked, cross-cultural studies of the Multi-Cultural Workforce in Auckland. Whilst the 1976-78 part of the project concentrates solely on studying attitude and behaviour in manufacturing industry, this is planned to develop into the service sector in 1979. Furthermore, studies have been planned to investigate the effects in the Pacific Islands of the return to the labour force of their own people who have learned industrial skills in New Zealand.

Growing Coconut Palms in the Pacific Islands: Colliding Knowledge and Values

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Coconut Oil ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
The West ◽  
Passive Resistance ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Tropical Pacific

Coconuts provided commodities for the West in the form of coconut oil and copra. Once colonial governments established control of the tropical Pacific Islands, they needed revenue so urged European settlers to establish coconut plantations. For some decades most copra came from Indigenous growers. Administrations constantly urged the people to thin old groves and plant new ones like plantations, in grid patterns, regularly spaced and weeded. Local growers were instructed to collect all fallen coconuts for copra from their groves. For half a century, the administrations’ requirements met with Indigenous passive resistance. This paper examines the underlying reasons for this, elucidating Indigenous ecological and social values, based on experiential knowledge, knowledge that clashed with Western scientific values.

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