Identity through history : living stories in a Solomon Islands society /

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?...

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Main Author: White, Geoffrey M. 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 83.
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