| Description |
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Work of Nation Making / Robert J. Foster -- The Formation of Nation-States and National Cultures in Oceania / Edward LiPuma -- Occupying the Headwaters of Tradition: Rhetorical Strategies of Nation Making in Fiji / Henry J. Rutz -- Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak: Ritual Politics and the Nation in Independent Fiji / Martha Kaplan -- Stepping-Stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands Case / Christine Jourdan -- Print Advertisements and Nation Making in Metropolitan Papua New Guinea / Robert J. Foster -- Local Persons, Metropolitan Names: Contending Forms of Simultaneity among the Fuyuge, Papua New Guinea / Eric Hirsch -- Kastom and Nation Making: The Politicization of Tradition on Nguna, Vanuatu / Ellen E. Facey -- Vanishing Nations and the Infiltration of Nationalism: The Case of Papua New Guinea / Michael Jacobsen -- The Privileges of Citizenship: Nations, States, Markets, and Narratives / John D. Kelly |
| Analysis |
Ethnicity Melanesia |
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Melanesia Politics and government |
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Nationalism Melanesia |
| Notes |
First paperback edition 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- Melanesia.
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Nationalism -- Melanesia.
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
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| Author |
Foster, Robert John, 1957- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
95008775 |
| ISBN |
0472105582 (alk. paper) |
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9780472084272 |
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9780472105588 (alk. paper) |
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