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The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures

Pacific Islanders --- Ethnology --- Oceanians --- Social life and customs. --- Oceania --- Pacific Islaners --- Social life and cutoms. --- Pacific Islaners-Social life and cutoms. --- Ethnology-Oceania. --- Oceania-Social life and customs.