id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lsyciamc6bezno7l67cd7iqhii Houston Wood Three Competing Research Perspectives for Oceania 2006.0 23 .pdf application/pdf 8241 603 55 theories, concepts, and methods that disciplinary researchers use to interpret Oceania remain in flux, contradictory, inconsistent, and often incoherent. Every use of disciplinary concepts, theories, and methods asserts not only that continent-based perspectives provide the best ways to comprehend the people of Oceania, but also that all cultural practices can be derived from Kanahele's or anyone's interpretation of Native Hawaiian values. some interest in practices has been part of most disciplineand interpretation-based projects for as long as there has been formal research in While interpretation-based research views abstract principles, philosophies, values, beliefs and the like as causes of behaviors, a practice-based some earlier studies Teaiwa emphasized Foucauldian notions of opposition and resistance, her dissertation claims that, more often, Pacific Islanders throughout Oceania actively appropriate and transform old colonialist practices, adding them to their repertoires in ways that make them way to apply a practice-based perspective to researching interpretations ./cache/work_lsyciamc6bezno7l67cd7iqhii.pdf ./txt/work_lsyciamc6bezno7l67cd7iqhii.txt