Tracing Sound Documents: Assemblages of a Tape Collection from Kiribati
In 1963–64, Gerd and Sigrid Koch recorded songs and dance chants on twelve reels of tape across three atolls of the southern Gilbert Archipelago – present-day K...
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Historicity and assemblage: Im/material dimensions of a religious movement in Kiribati
In this study, I explore the role and relationship of material and immaterial entities as constituents of a religious movement that emerged in 1930 on the atoll...
Song, Narrative, and Lines of Transmission: The “Tabwakea and Bakoariki” Recordings from the Koch Tape Collection (Kiribati 1963/64)
This article examines 34 sound documents recorded by Gerd and Sigrid Koch in March 1964 in Buariki village, Onotoa, Kiribati. At its center are three related so...
The Koch Tape Collection (Kiribati 1963/64): Digitized Overview and Thematic Lists
This paper presents a structured and searchable overview of the Koch Tape Collection – songs and dance chants recorded by Gerd and Sigrid Koch during their 1963...
Musik und Tanz im Kampf gegen Klimawandel: Verknüpfte Wirkungen von Tanzkleidung in Kiribati
Reference Elfriede Hermann and Wolfgang Kempf (2024):Musik und Tanz im Kampf gegen Klimawandel: Verknüpfte Wirkungen von Tanzkleidung in Kiribati. In: Michael ...
Die Tonbandsammlung Koch aus Kiribati: Entstehungszusammenhänge, Wirkmächte und Repräsentationen
The focus of this study is the historical exploration of a collection of audio documents with songs and dance chants from the Gilbert Archipelago in the Central...
Climate Change Songs and Emotions: Articulating Agency in the Central Pacific
Articulations of vulnerability, of the will to address the challenges posed by climate change, and of criticism of the international community’s inadequate effo...
Higher Powers: Negotiating Climate Change, Religion and Future in Oceania
Social science research on Pacific Islanders’ receptions of and dealings with climate change has recently gained considerable momentum. Yet, despite the well-do...
Adaptation and the Question of Migration: Directions in Dealing with Climate Change in Kiribati
In this chapter, we look at the central Pacific atoll state of Kiribati, which is con-sidered particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change but ...
Tsunami Warnings:
Cultural Conceptualizations of Climate Change Impacts in Kiribati
The inhabitants of Kiribati, an atoll state in the Central Pacific, have long been confronted with scientific scenarios of sea-level rise, inundation and displa...