Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society
(Book #83 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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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? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521533325
ISBN13:9780521533324
Release Date:February 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:292 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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