Identity Through History Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society

Name: Identity Through History Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society
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ISBN: 9780521533324

ISBN-10: 0521533325

ISBN-13: 9780521533324

Edition: 2002

Authors: Geoffrey M. White, Meyer Fortes, Jack Goody, Edmund Leach, Stanley J. Tambiah

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For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimized by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Orientations



First encounters



Portraits of the past



Chiefs, persons and power



Transformations



Crisis and christianity



Conversions and consolidation



Narrations



Becoming Christian: playing with history



Missionary encounters: narrating the self



Revitalization



Collisions and convergence



The paramount chief: rites of renewal



Conclusion


Notes


References