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"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian Nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Australian National University. Division of Pacific and Asian History, ANU E Press
Otros Autores: Lal, Brij V., Luker, Vicki
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2008.
Temas:
Anthropology.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Islands of the Pacific > Biography.
Islands of the Pacific > Anecdotes.
Islands of the Pacific > Civilization > Congresses.
Islands of the Pacific > Social life and customs > Congresses.
Pacifique, Îles du > Biographies.
Pacifique, Îles du > Anecdotes.
Pacifique, Îles du > Civilisation > Congrès.
Pacifique, Îles du > Mœurs et coutumes > Congrès.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific.
ethnology.
anthropology.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Telling Pacific lives: from archetype to icon / Niel Gunson
  • The Kila Wari stories: framing a life and preserving a cosmology / Deborah Van Heekeren
  • From 'my story' to 'the story of myself'-colonial transformations of personal narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard
  • Mobility, modernisation and agency: the life story of John Kikang from Papua New Guinea / Wolfgang Kempf
  • Surrogacy and the simulacra of desire in Heian Japanese Women's life writing / Christina Houen
  • 'The story that came to me': gender, power and life history narratives-reflections on the ethics of ethnography in Fiji / Pauline McKenzie Aucoin
  • A tartan clan in Fiji: narrating the coloniser 'within' the colonised / Lucy de Bruce
  • Telling lives in Tuvalu / Michael Goldsmith
  • My history: my calling / Alaima Talu
  • Researching, (w)riting, releasing, and responses to a biography of Queen Salote of Tonga / Elizabeth Wood-Ellem
  • On being a participant biographer: the search for J.W. Davidson / Doug Munro
  • 'You did what, Mr President!?!?' trying to write a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama / David Hanlon
  • Telling the life of A.D. Patel / Brij V. Lal
  • On writing a biography of William Pritchard / Andrew E. Robson
  • Writing the colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands, 1898 to 1909 / Graeme Whimp
  • An accidental biographer? on encountering, yet again, the ideas and actions of J.W. Burton / Christine Weir
  • E.W.P. Chinnery: a self-made anthropologist / Geoffrey Gray
  • Lives told: Australians in Papua and New Guinea / Hank Nelson
  • Biography of a nation: compiling a historical dictionary of the Solomon Islands / Clive Moore.

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