Title Identity through history : living stories in a Solomon Islands society / Geoffrey M. White

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm regular print Series Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 83 Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 83 Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Orientations -- 2. First encounters -- 3. Portraits of the past -- 4. Chiefs, persons and power -- Part II. Transformations: 5. Crisis and christianity -- 6. Conversions and consolidation -- Part III. Narrations: 7. Becoming Christian: playing with history -- 8. Missionary encounters: narrating the self -- Part IV. Revitalization: 9. Collisions and convergence -- 10. The paramount chief: rites of renewal -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References Analysis Social anthropology Solomon Islands Social anthropology Solomon Islands Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ( pages [257]-264) and index Notes Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology no:83 Subject Ethnicity -- Solomon Islands -- Santa Isabel Island. Ethnology -- Solomon Islands -- Santa Isabel Island. Ethnology -- Solomon Islands -- Santa Isabel Island. Missions -- Solomon Islands -- Santa Isabel Island -- History. Oral tradition -- Solomon Islands -- Santa Isabel Island. Santa Isabel Island (Solomon Islands) -- History. Santa Isabel Island (Solomon Islands) -- Religious life and customs. LC no. 90025590 ISBN 0521401720

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