Cultural Memory : : Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific / / ed. by Jeannette Marie Mageo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Carucci, Laurence Marshall,; Dalton, Doug,; Dening, Greg,; Dureau, Christine,; Mageo, Jeannette Marie,; Mageo, Marie,; Morton, Helen,; Rodman, Margaret Critchlow,; Stillman, Amy Ku'uleialoha,
• HerausgeberIn: Mageo, Jeannette Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and the cultural other constructed in acts of remembering? What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? In contemporary Pacific societies these qu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. On Memory Genres: Tendencies in Cultural Remembering
• I. Recollecting Cultural History and Identity
• Chapter 2. Remembering Freedom and the Freedom to Remember: Tongan Memories of Independence
• Chapter 3. The Third Meaning in Cultural Memory: History, Identity, and Spirit Possession in Samoa Jeannette
• Chapter 4. Elision or Decision: Lived History and the Contextual Grounding of the Constructed Past
• II. Positionality, Ambiguity, and Ambivalence
• Chapter 5. Memory, Power, and Loss in Rawa Discourse
• Chapter 6. Recounting and Remembering "First Contact" on Simbo
• Chapter 7. Memory and Conviction: Colonial Tales of Prisoners in the New Hebrides
• III. Colonial Continuities/Discontinuities III. in Cultural Memory
• Chapter 8. Re-Membering the History of the Hawaiian Hula
• Chapter 9. Afterword: On the Befores and Afters of the Encounter
• Contributors
• Index