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.

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