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Identity work : constructing Pacific lives / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern.

Contributor(s): Stewart, Pamela J | Strathern, Andrew | Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Language: English Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.Description: xi, 217p. ; 23cm.ISBN: 0822957167
Contents:
Introduction: narratives speak / P.J. Stewart, A. Strathern; I, Self changes. "Some peoples, if you marry, you marry to everybody": a Tongan life story / B. Burns McGrath; Fragmented selfhood: female life histories / P.J. Stewart, A. Strathern; Life history and female initiation: Irian Jaya / L. Thoonen; II, Male leaders. Further twists of the rope: Ongka and Ru / A. Strathern, P.J. Stewart; Knowledge makes the man: a contemporary Maori ritual specialist / Karen Sinclair; III, Agencies. Where resistance falls short / R. Scaglion, Marie Norman; Outlaw memories: postcolonial Vanuatu / W. Rodman; Carolinian history and the story of a chief / Juliana Flinn; Afterword / Geoffrey M. White.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Closed Stacks H6/KX [ASS-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L72212
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Bibliographical references : p. 195-208.

Introduction: narratives speak / P.J. Stewart, A. Strathern; I, Self changes. "Some peoples, if you marry, you marry to everybody": a Tongan life story / B. Burns McGrath; Fragmented selfhood: female life histories / P.J. Stewart, A. Strathern; Life history and female initiation: Irian Jaya / L. Thoonen; II, Male leaders. Further twists of the rope: Ongka and Ru / A. Strathern, P.J. Stewart; Knowledge makes the man: a contemporary Maori ritual specialist / Karen Sinclair; III, Agencies. Where resistance falls short / R. Scaglion, Marie Norman; Outlaw memories: postcolonial Vanuatu / W. Rodman; Carolinian history and the story of a chief / Juliana Flinn; Afterword / Geoffrey M. White.