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Identity work : constructing Pacific lives
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- Creator
- edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, by arrangement with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, [2000]
- ©2000
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- x, 217 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822957164, 0822957167, 9780822941156, 0822941155
- OCLC
- ocm43474673
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
- Pt. 1. Self changes. "Some peoples, if you marry, you marry to everybody" : a Tongan life story / Barbara Burns McGrath -- Fragmented selfhood : contradiction, anomaly, and violence in female life-histories / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Life history and female initiation : a case study from Irian Jaya / Louise Thoonen -- Pt. 2. Male leaders. Further twists of the rope : Ongka and Ru in a transforming world / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Knowledge makes the man : Matiu Mareikura, a contemporary Maori ritual specialist / Karen Sinclair -- Pt. 3. Agencies. Where resistance falls short : rethinking agency through biography / Richard Scaglion and Marie Norman -- Outlaw memories : biography and the construction of meaning in postcolonial Vanuatu / William Rodman -- Carolinian history and the story of a chief : the case of the damaged Utt / Juliana Flinn