TY - BOOK AU - Stewart,Pamela J. AU - Strathern,Andrew TI - Identity work: constructing Pacific lives T2 - ASAO monograph series SN - 0822941155 AV - GN663. I34 2000 U1 - 306.0995 PY - 2000///] CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - University of Pittsburgh Press, by arrangement with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania KW - Ethnology KW - Oceania KW - Biographical methods KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Women KW - Biography KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index; 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 ER -