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Pac.GN380.P23 1998
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TITLE: Pacific answers to Western hegemony : cultural practices of identity construction / edited by Jürg Wassmann.
SERIES: Explorations in anthropology
PUBLISHED: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1998.
DESCRIPTION: vii, 449 p. ; 22 cm.
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index.
NOTES: Knowing Oceania or Oceanian knowing : identifying actors and activating identities in turbulent times / Jonathan Friedman -- Inventing natives - negotiating local identities : postcolonial readings of colonial texts on island Melanesia / Bronwen Douglas -- Writing local history in Solomon Islands / Ben Burt -- 'Noble savages' and the 'Islands of love' : Trobriand Islanders in 'popular publications' / Gunter Senft -- Contrasting transcripts : constructing images and identities in mediations among the Wam people of Papua New Guinea / Nigel A. Stephenson -- The identity construction of ethnic and social groups in contemporary Papua New Guinea / Berit Gustafsson -- Reinventing identities : redefining cultural concepts in the struggle between villagers in Munda, Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands, for the control of land / Gerhard Schneider -- 'Alas! and on we go' / Philippe Peltier -- Resource management in Lavongai and Tigak Islands : changing practices, changing identities / Ton Otto -- Metaphors, media and social change : second-generation Cook Islanders in New Zealand / Thomas K. Fitzgerald -- Identity construction as a cooperative project : anthropological film-making with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa peoples, Reef Islands, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands / Jens Pinholt -- National identity : Australia after Mabo / Robert Tonkinson -- Knowing the country : Mabo, native title and 'traditional' law in aboriginal Australia / Ad Borsboom -- 'All one but different : aboriginality : national identity versus local diversification in Australia / Barbara Glowczewski -- Essentially black, essentially Australian, essentially opposed : Australian anthropology and its use of aboriginal identity / John Morton -- Culture and democracy among the Maori / Toon van Meijl -- Is aristocracy good for democracy? A contemporary debate in Western Samoa / Serge Tcherkézoff.
SUBJECT: Ethnicity--Oceania.
SUBJECT: Culture conflict--Oceania.
SUBJECT: Australian aborigines--Ethnic identity.
ADDED ENTRY: Wassmann, Jürg.

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