Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific 9780824841874
How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and
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English Pages 232 [228] Year 2001
Table of contents :
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
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
- Author / Uploaded
- Jeannette Marie Mageo (editor)
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