Living tradition : a changing life in Solomon Islands

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Living tradition : a changing life in Solomon Islands

as told by Michael Kwaʾioloa to Ben Burt

Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1997

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Bibliography: p. [170]

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内容説明

Anthropological research has increasingly focused on the effects of material and social change on traditional cultures. Ethnological autobiographies such as this, allow members of such cultures to speak for themselves, providing a unique insight into the subject's life. Michael Kwa'ioloa explains the importance of his traditional culture in providing a stable foundation for life in changing times. He describes his childhood in the forest of East Kwara'ae, his exposure to Western culture in the capital, his arranged marriage and conversion to Christianity. In first-hand testimony, he considers the contrasts between rural society and urban life, exchanges of shell money and working for cash, the power of ancestral ghosts and Christian belief, traditional practices of restitution and modern notions of crime and punishment.

目次

  • Early years
  • life without mother
  • going to town
  • the power of ghosts, and God
  • getting married
  • home to Malaita, family and work
  • God's work, and backsliding again
  • getting into trouble
  • work and economic development
  • tradition shows its strength
  • tradition and the decline of the ghosts.

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