Browsing A Collection for the Asia-Pacific Region by Subject "development"

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Indigenizing or Adapting? Importing Buddhism into a Settler-colonial Society

McAra, Sally A. (2007)

In this paper I problematize the phrase "indigenization of Buddhism" (Spuler 2003, cf. Baumann 1997) through an investigation of a Buddhist project in a settler-colonial society. An international organization called the ...
Sustainable Development as Cargo Cult: Strange Tales of Scale Making from Melanesia and Beyond

Golub, Alex (2007-12)

While the hyper-exotic discourse of 'cargo cult' continues to draw attention in popular media representations of Melanesia, many anthropologists have noted that the movements thus labeled represent a more general Melanesian ...