Shifting images of identity in the Pacific
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Shifting images of identity in the Pacific
（Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 227）
KITLV Press, 2004
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"The essays collected in this volume were originally presented at the fourth conference of the European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) that was held in Leiden in June 1999." -- pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines how identities emerge, persist and change in various Pacific societies. The 'shifting images' of identity are explored in pre-colonial, colonial as well as post-colonial circumstances. All the essays in this volume address both continuity and discontinuity in the construction of identities in the rapidly changing Pacific region. A region increasingly characterized by state-formation processes and global influences.
Table of Contents
Toon van Meijl, "Introduction" Don Gardner, "The advent and history of Miyanmin identity" Jelle Miedema, "Identities as parameters of continuity and change in a West Papua Society" Allen Abramson, "A small matter of some rent to be paid: Towards an analysis of neo-traditional action in contemporary Fiji" Monique Jeudy-Ballini, "The lives of the mask: A few Sulka reasons for perplexity" Judy Flores, "Artists and activists in cultural identity construction in the Mariana Islands" Erich Kolig, "From a 'madonna in a condom' to 'claiming the airwaves': The Maori cultural renaissance and biculturalism in New Zealand" Wolfgang Kempf, "The drama of death as narrative of survival: Dance theater, traveling, and thirdspace among the Banabans of Fiji" Elfriede Hermann, "Emotions, agency, and the displaced self of the Banabans in Fiji" Alan Howard & Jan Rensel, "Rotuman identity in the electronic age" Jocelyn Linnekin, "Epilogue: Is 'cultural identity' an anachronism in a transnational world?"
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