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ItemHeterosexuality/Heteronormative(Wiley - John Wiley & Sons, 2018-08-01)Heterosexuality is the expression of sexual desire and orientation toward a person of the opposite biological sex. It refers to emotional attachments, sexual acts and practices, and a sense of identity. Since the 1990s, the term “heteronormativity” has gained currency, highlighting those aspects of social life beyond heterosexual erotic practice. Heteronormativity is a concept that aims to illustrate how social institutions and policy, ranging from marriage to citizenship, reinforce and privilege heterosexuality as both normal and morally right.
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ItemEntangled Traditions: Beth Dean and Victor Carell and the 1972 South Pacific Festival of Arts(University of South Pacific Press, 2017)This article examines the role Beth Dean and Victor Carell had in shaping the inaugural South Pacific Festival of Arts 1972.
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ItemSexuality(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2018-08-01)Sexuality is a complex amalgam of drives, desires, practices, and identities. Across the social sciences, sexuality has come to be understood first and foremost as socially constructed; even the most intimate and private acts are shaped by social norms that inform ideas about reproduction, kinship, love, and pleasure. Anthropology has been at the forefront of recording how sexuality is organized in specific locales and increasingly shaped by macrolevel and global factors. Anthropology's contribution to the study of human sexuality is through documentation of how sex is experienced and categorized differently across cultures. This is in contrast to approaches in other disciplines, such as psychology and sexology, that tend to treat sexual behaviors as psychological and physical instincts rather than as social phenomena.
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ItemRegulating Cultural Performances in Oceania: Relationships between Law, Creativity and Cultural Property(Société des Océanistes, 2016)This paper explores a number of tensions around claims of rights over various aspects of cultural performance with a particular focus on the Cook Islands. We discuss the historical context of these tensions and trace the way in which certain anxieties and agendas have led to demands for, and the realisation of, new laws over cultural performances, most particularly the Copyright Act 2013 and the Traditional Knowledge Act 2013. We then discuss how such new regulatory frameworks have a potentially critical role to play in determining who has the rights to perform what, with effects that are likely to spill out from the confines of laws and court cases into popular discourses around claims over many manifestations of culture and creativity.
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ItemClothing and the continuity of Cook Islands social values(University of the South Pacific Press, 2015-12-01)Cook Islanders, Cook Islands residents, artists, choreographers, performers and scholars write about the vibrancy of local dance, drumming, fashion, painting, quilting, carving, weaving, tapa making, theatre, and other creative endeavours.
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ItemDepartures and Arrivals in Touring Pacific Cultures(AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, 2016)
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ItemRe-purposing Paradise: Tourism, Image and Affect(AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTouring Pacific Cultures(Australian National University Press, 2016-12-14)This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and in directly.
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ItemBingo and budgets: gambling with global capital in the Cook Islands(University of Queensland Press, 2011)