Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Constituting Historical Knowledge -- 1 Knowing Oceania or Oceanian Knowing: Identifying Actors and Activating Identities in Turbulent Times -- 2 Inventing Natives/Negotiating Local Identities: Postcolonial Readings of Colonial Texts on Island Melanesia -- 3 Writing Local History in Solomon Islands -- 4 'Noble Savages' and the 'Islands of Love': Trobriand Islanders in 'Popular Publications' -- Part II: Ways of Constructing Identities -- 5 Contrasting Transcripts: Constructing Images and Identities in Mediations among the Warn People of Papua New Guinea -- 6 The Identity Construction of Ethnic and Social Groups in Contemporary Papua New Guinea -- 7 Reinventing Identities: Redefining Cultural Concepts in the Struggle between Villagers in Munda, Roviana Lagoon, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands, for the Control of Land -- 8 'Alas! And On We Go' -- 9 Resource Management in Lavongai and Tigak Islands: Changing Practices, Changing Identities -- 10 Metaphors, Media and Social Change: Second-generation Cook Islanders in New Zealand -- 11 Identity Construction as a Cooperative Project: Anthropological Film-making with the Vaiakau and Fenualoa Peoples, Reef Islands, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands -- Part III: Australia after Mabo -- 12 National Identity: Australia after Mabo -- 13 Knowing the Country: Mabo, Native Title and 'Traditional' Law in Aboriginal Australia -- 14 'All One but Different': Aboriginality: National Identity versus Local Diversification in Australia -- 15 Essentially Black, Essentially Australian, Essentially Opposed: Australian Anthropology and Its Uses of Aboriginal Identity -- Part IV: Questioning Western Democracy? -- 16 Culture and Democracy among the Maori.
