Pacific Studies Journal
Abstract
The contributors to this special issue represent the orientations and approaches of several social science disciplines and are variously involved in interdisci plina1y endeavors. However, anthropology is the primary discipline and ethno graphy a shared methodology. It is a main task of any ethnography to make the exotic familiar and to treat the familiar as though it were exotic. The papers in this special issue achieve this for grandparenthood in the Pacific. The familiar concept of grandparenthood is shown to have multiple meanings in close examinations of how the status is achieved, for example, what it means for a person's position in society, what roles are attached, and how grandparents may contribute to the survival and development of their communities and societies and adaptations to sociocultural change.
Recommended Citation
Counts, Dorothy Ayers
(2008)
"INTRODUCTION: THE PRACTICE AND PROSPECTS OF GRANDPARENTING IN THE PACIFIC,"
Pacific Studies Journal: Vol. 30:
No.
3, Article 2.
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https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/pacific-studies-journal/vol30/iss3/2
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