Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781921313813)

How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays - by historians and anthropologists, Islanders and Island scholars - probes questions of personhood, identity, memory, and time across the sweep of the Pacific, as well as practical issues of research and writing.

Author: Brij V. Lal
ISBN-10: 1921313811
ISBN-13: 9781921313813
Publisher: Anu Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.84h x 6.93w x 0.86d