ASAO Monograph #18: Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives
Edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
University of Pittsburgh Press (2000)
Introduction. Identity Work: Constructing Pacific Lives
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
1. "Some Peoples, If You Marry, You Marry to Everybody": A Tongan Life Story
Barbara Burns McGrath
2. Fragmented Selfhood: Contradiction, Anomaly, and Violence in Female Life Histories
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
3. Life History and Female Initiation: A Case Study from Irian Jaya
Louise Thoonen
4. Further Twists of the Rope: Ongka and Ru in a Transforming World
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
5. Knowledge Makes the Man: Matiu Mareikura, a Contemporary Maori Ritual Specialist
Karen Sinclair
6. Where Resistance Falls Short: Rethinking Agency Through Biography
Richard Scaglion and Marie Norman
7. Outlaw Memories: Biography and the Construction of Meaning in Postcolonial Vanuatu
William Rodman
8. Carolinian History and the Story of a Chief: The Case of the Damaged Utt
Juliana Flinn
9. Afterword: Lives and Histories
Geoffrey M. White