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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