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Author: Keith Chambers, Anne Chambers

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.
 

Unity of Heart Culture and Change in a Polynesian Atoll Society 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Encountering Nanumea

Learning to Speak

Fieldwork Methods

A Second Chance

A Third Visit

Seeking Feedback

Looking Back over a Quarter Century

Chapter 2: “Of the Island”

Chapter 3: Tefolaha in the Cookhouse

Family Corporations

A Cookhouse Encounter

Community Foundations

Myths and “Reality”

Chapter 4: Emerging from the “Days of Darkness”

Dating Tefolaha

Precontact Society

Themes in Nanumean Traditional History

Overseas Raids, Invasions, and Adventures

Internal Feuds and Wars

Explorers and Whalers

Missionaries

Traders, Beachcombers, and Sailors

Under Colonial Administration

The War Years

Passage to Independence

Chapter 5: 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

Chapter 6: 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

Copra

Local Sales

Wages and Employment

Remittances

Changes in Cash Income

Chapter 7: 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

Chapter 8: Community

Community Organization

Heart of the Community

The Church

The Meeting Hall

Service-Oriented Leadership

Getting Along Together

Heirs of Tefolaha

Chapter 9: 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

Balancing Urban and Outer Island Opportunities

Looking to the Future

Chapter 10: Unity of Heart

Glossary of Tuvaluan Words

Bibliography

Study Guide

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