Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific / / edited by Toon van Meijl.
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 i...
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| Superior document: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 227 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
227. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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?".