Nation
Making:
Emergent
Identities
in
Postcolonial
Melanesia
edited
by
Robert J. Foster
1995
Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press
from 1991 Working Session
- Introduction:
- The Work of Nation Making
- Robert J. Foster
- Part 1: Issues and Problems
- The Formation of Nation-States and National Cultures in Oceania
- Edward LiPuma
- Part 2: Instruments and Narratives of "The Nation"
- Occupying the Headwaters of Tradition: Rhetorical Strategies of Nation Making in Fiji
- Henry J. Rutz
- Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak: Ritual Politics and the Nation in Independent Fiji
- Martha Kaplan
- Stepping-stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands Case
- Christine Jourdan
- Print Advertisements and Nation Making in Metropolitan Papua New Guinea
- Robert J. Foster
- Part 3: Unmaking Nations? Local Appropriations of "The Nation"
- Local Persons, Metropolitan Names: Contending Forms of Simultaneity among the Fuyuge, Papua New Guinea
- Eric Hirsch
- Kastom and Nation Making: The Politicization of Tradition on Nguna, Vanuatu
- Ellen Facey
- Vanishing Nations and the Infiltration of Nationalism: The Case of Papua New Guinea
- Michael Jacobsen
- Epilogue:
- The Privileges of Citizenship: Nations, States, Markets, and Narratives
- John D. Kelly