Engaging Environments in Tonga

Arne Aleksej Perminow is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and keeper of the Oceania Collection at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. He has curated several exhibitions including Startpaths across the Pacific: Narratives of Origin in Oceania and the Pacific part of Collapse: Human Being in an Unpredictable World (Museum of Cultural History, 2006 and 2018).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: An Environmental Puzzle



Chapter 1. Moving to the Beat of a Marine Environment

Chapter 2. Daily Motions of Merging and Separation

Chapter 3. Lunar Motions of Growth and Regeneration

Chapter 4. Creating Tableaux of Moving Beauty

Chapter 5. Nurturing Flows Between Hands That Let Go



Conclusion: Calamity, Sacrifice and Blessing in a Changing World



Appendix: Words of a World in Motion

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Index