Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
Author(s)
V. Lal, Brij
Luker, Vicki
Language
EnglishAbstract
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays — by historians and anthropologists, Islanders and Island scholars — probes questions of personhood, identity, memory, and time across the sweep of the Pacific, as well as practical issues of research and writing.
Keywords
ethnology; anthropology; FijiDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_459738OCN
234317701Publisher
ANU PressPublisher website
https://press.anu.edu.au/Publication date and place
Canberra, 2008Classification
Ethnic studies
Anthropology