Identity work :  constructing Pacific lives / 
edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. 
 - x, 217 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - ASAO monograph series. .
 - ASAO monograph ;  no. 18. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. Self changes. "Some peoples, if you marry, you marry to everybody" : a Tongan life story / Barbara Burns McGrath -- Fragmented selfhood : contradiction, anomaly, and violence in female life-histories / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Life history and female initiation : a case study from Irian Jaya / Louise Thoonen -- Pt. 2. Male leaders. Further twists of the rope : Ongka and Ru in a transforming world / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Knowledge makes the man : Matiu Mareikura, a contemporary Maori ritual specialist / Karen Sinclair -- Pt. 3. Agencies. Where resistance falls short : rethinking agency through biography / Richard Scaglion and Marie Norman -- Outlaw memories : biography and the construction of meaning in postcolonial Vanuatu / William Rodman -- Carolinian history and the story of a chief : the case of the damaged Utt / Juliana Flinn. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0822941155 9780822941156 0822957167 9780822957164 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00008385 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Oceania<br/>Ethnology--Biographical methods<br/>Identity (Psychology)<br/>Women--Oceania--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Oceania--Social conditions
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN663.  / I34 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.0995