ISBN:
0822941155
,
0822957167
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 217 S
Series Statement:
ASAO monograph 18
DDC:
306/.0995
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Oceania
;
Ethnology
;
Biographical methods
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Women
;
Oceania
;
Oceania
;
Social conditions
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Biografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Biografie
;
Ozeanien
;
Ethnologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Note:
Includes bibliographical references 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
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