UID:
almafu_9960119860902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87872-9
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0-511-62189-2
Serie:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 83
Inhalt:
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 to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-53332-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-40172-0
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621895
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