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Pacific answers to western hegemony : cultural practices of identity construction / edited by Jürg Wassmann.

By: Wassmann, Jürg
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 1998.Description: vii, 449p. : diagrs., map ; 22cm.ISBN: 1859731597
Contents:
Contents: I, Constituting historical knowledge. Knowing Oceania or Oceanian knowing / J. Friedman; Inventing natives/negotiating local identities: island melanesia / Bronwen Douglas; Writing local history in Solomon Islands / Ben Burt; "Noble savages" and the "islands of love": Trobriand islanders / G. Senft; II, Ways of constructing identities. Contrasting transcripts: Papua New Guinea / Nigel A. Stephenson; The identity construction of ethnic and social groups in contemporary Papua New Guinea / B. Gustafsson; Reinventing identities in the struggle between villagers in Munda, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands / G. Schneider; "Alas! And on we go" / P. Peltier; Resource management in Lavongai and Tigak islands / Ton Otto; Metaphors, media and social change: Cook Islanders in New Zealand / Thomas K. Fitzgerald; Identity construction as a cooperative project: anthropological film-making with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa peoples / J. Pinholt; III, Australia after Mabo. National identity: Australia after Mabo / R. Tonkinson; Knowing the country: Mabo, native title and "traditional" law in Aboriginal Australia / A. Boorsboom; "All one but different" / B. Glowczewski; Essentially black, essentially Australian, essentially opposed / John Morton; IV, Questioning western democracy. Culture and democracy among the Maori / Toon van Meijl; Is aristocracy good for democracy? Debate in Western Samoa / S. Tcherkézoff.
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Contents: I, Constituting historical knowledge. Knowing Oceania or Oceanian knowing / J. Friedman; Inventing natives/negotiating local identities: island melanesia / Bronwen Douglas; Writing local history in Solomon Islands / Ben Burt; "Noble savages" and the "islands of love": Trobriand islanders / G. Senft; II, Ways of constructing identities. Contrasting transcripts: Papua New Guinea / Nigel A. Stephenson; The identity construction of ethnic and social groups in contemporary Papua New Guinea / B. Gustafsson; Reinventing identities in the struggle between villagers in Munda, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands / G. Schneider; "Alas! And on we go" / P. Peltier; Resource management in Lavongai and Tigak islands / Ton Otto; Metaphors, media and social change: Cook Islanders in New Zealand / Thomas K. Fitzgerald; Identity construction as a cooperative project: anthropological film-making with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa peoples / J. Pinholt; III, Australia after Mabo. National identity: Australia after Mabo / R. Tonkinson; Knowing the country: Mabo, native title and "traditional" law in Aboriginal Australia / A. Boorsboom; "All one but different" / B. Glowczewski; Essentially black, essentially Australian, essentially opposed / John Morton; IV, Questioning western democracy. Culture and democracy among the Maori / Toon van Meijl; Is aristocracy good for democracy? Debate in Western Samoa / S. Tcherkézoff.