Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands SocietyCambridge University Press, 1991 - 292 หน้า 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 victimized 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
First encounters | 19 |
Portraits of the past | 30 |
Chiefs persons and power | 52 |
Crisis and Christianity | 81 |
Conversion and consolidation | 103 |
Becoming Christian playing with history | 133 |
Missionary encounters narrating the self | 157 |
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activities ancestors big-men bina boli Bishop Buala Bughotu canoe catechists chapter Cheke Holo chiefly leadership Christian chiefs Christian identity Christian person church chiefs Church of Melanesia clan colonial concepts constituted contexts conversion narratives Council of Chiefs cultural descent Diary discourse discussed district Dudley Tuti emerge encounter exchange Figrima forest forms Hageria headhunting headman heathen Henry Welchman Hograno Honiara Hugo Hebala images indigenous institutions Josepa kastom Khakatio killing Knabu Kolokofa Lagheba land leaders Maasina Rule Malaita Maringe Maringe area Matasi Iho meaning meeting Melanesian Mission missionary models moral narrator Nggela Notere occasion Pacific paramount chief past peace performance Pidgin political practices prayer pre-Christian priests raiding region Rekegau relations represent Resident ritual role Santa Isabel Sepi ceremony Sepi village shrines significance skit social society Soga Soga's Solomon Islands spirits status story symbolic talk thautaru thukma Togasalo traditional transformation violence warriors Woodford WPHC