Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process

by Brij V. Lal and Vicki Luker

How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collection of essays - by historians and anthropologists, Islanders and Island scholars - probes questions of personhood, identity, memory, and time across the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921313811
• ISBN13: 9781921313813
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"