Identity work : constructing Pacific lives /
edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern.
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
- xi, 217p. ; 23cm.
- 18 .
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.