{"product_id":"identity-through-history-living-stories-in-a-solomon-islands-society-hardback-9780521401722","title":"Identity through History; Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (Hardback) 9780521401722","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIdentity through History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiving Stories in a Solomon Islands Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is about the construction of cultural identity through narratives of shared history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeoffrey M. White (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521401722, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 November 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 16 b\/w illus.  2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'White's book is a rich and nuanced contribution to the literature on perceptions of the past and colonial change in the Pacific … an important contribution to Pacific anthropology.' Man\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Orientations: 2. First encounters\u003cbr\u003e 3. Portraits of the past\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chiefs, persons and power\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Transformations: 5. Crisis and Christianity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conversions and consolidation\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Narrations: 7. Becoming Christian: playing with history\u003cbr\u003e 8. Missionary encounters: narrating the self\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Revitalization: 9. Collisions and convergence\u003cbr\u003e 10. The paramount chief: rites of renewal\u003cbr\u003e 11. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007235969304,"sku":"9780521401722","price":73.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521401722i_48212a04-4a6e-4192-bc40-4fe06e6338e0.jpg?v=1691381148","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/identity-through-history-living-stories-in-a-solomon-islands-society-hardback-9780521401722","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}