Three Competing Research Perspectives for Oceania

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2006
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Wood, Houston
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University of Hawai'i Press
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
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Three research perspectives are currently competing in Oceania. A disciplinebased perspective still dominates, though ever fewer people believe that disciplines produce superior forms of knowledge. An alternative, interpretation-based perspective is becoming more prominent, but this approach relies on confusing and contradictory claims about how interpretations connect to concrete activities. A practice-based approach seems better able to promote diversity and place-based autonomies in Oceania. Research that focuses on practices avoids the universalizing claims of discipline-based research. By treating cultures as dynamic repertoires of practices, a practice-based approach integrates interpretive and noninterpretive activities within a single research frame. Examples from many researchers, including Epeli Hau‘ofa and Ty Käwika Tengan, illustrate the benefits of a practice-based approach.
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disciplines, Oceania, Pacific studies, practices, research, Oceania -- Periodicals.
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Wood, H. 2006. Three Competing Research Perspectives for Oceania. The Contemporary Pacific 18 (1): 33-55.
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