Narratives of nation in the South Pacific [electronic resource] / edited by Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas.
A collection of essays which focuses upon local perceptions of the state, efforts to ground nationhood in tradition, the character of national narratives and recent transformations of the Pacific nationalism. Case studies are included from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
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| Language: | English |
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Australia :
Harwood Academic Publishers,
1997.
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| Series: | Studies in anthropology and history ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- The tyranny of tradition : critical reflections on nationalist narratives in the South Pacific / Ton Otto and Nicholas Thomas
- After the 'tidal wave' : Bernard Narakobi and the creation of a Melanesian way / Ton Otto
- Imagining the state, or tribalism and the arts of memory in the highlands of Papua, New Guinea / Jeffrey Clark
- Commemorating missionary heroes : local Christianity and narratives of nationalism / Michael W. Young
- Women-nation-state in Vanuatu : women as signs and subjects in the discourses of Kastom, modernity an Christianity / Margaret Jolly
- Nation or desti-nation? Cook Islands nationalism since 1965 / Jeffrey Sissons
- 'Mornings of the country' : centering the nation in Samoan historical discourse / Jocelyn Linnekin
- Nations' endings : from citizenship to shopping? / Nicholas Thomas.