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Author Kwaʼioloa, Michael.

Title Living tradition : a changing life in Solomon Islands / as told by Michael Kwaʼioloa to Ben Burt
Published Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description vi, 169 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
regular print
Summary Living Tradition is a work of collaboration between Michael Kwaioloa and Ben Burt, an anthropologist who has been researching the culture and history of Kwaraae since 1979. It presents social and cultural change from the personal perspective of autobiography, edited and interpreted with the benefit of academic research. Kwaioloa's theme is the importance of his traditional culture in providing an essential but ambivalent foundation for life in changing times. He presents a lively personal account of how Kwaraae tradition is lived even as it is transformed in confrontation with Christianity and European culture; a vivid illustration of life in the contemporary Pacific Islands
Michael Kwaioloa grew up in the forested homeland of his ancestors on the Pacific island of Malaita and discovered the wider world by moving to the town on Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands. Living Tradition is the story of how his life changed as he came to terms with a world of contrasting cultures and values, combining family instruction and school, ancestral ghosts and born-again Christianity, shell money exchanges and work for cash, restitution of wrongs and government law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [170])
Subject Kwaʼioloa, Michael.
Christianity and culture -- Solomon Islands -- Malaita Province.
Christianity and culture -- Solomon Islands.
Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands people) -- Biography.
Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands people) -- History.
Christianity and culture -- Solomon Islands -- Malaita
Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands people) -- Social life and customs.
SUBJECT Honiara (Solomon Islands) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86014192 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Malaita Province (Solomon Islands) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90679527 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author Burt, Ben.
LC no. 97002097
ISBN 0824819608 (alk. paper)