Telling Pacific lives : prisms of process /
Telling Pacific lives : prisms of process /
Brij V. Lal and Vicki Luker, editors.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages)
Title from PDF title page (viewed July 17, 2008).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Telling Pacific lives: from archetype to icon / The Kila Wari stories: framing a life and preserving a cosmology / From 'my story' to 'the story of myself'-colonial transformations of personal narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea / Mobility, modernisation and agency: the life story of John Kikang from Papua New Guinea / Surrogacy and the simulacra of desire in Heian Japanese Women's life writing / 'The story that came to me': gender, power and life history narratives-reflections on the ethics of ethnography in Fiji / A tartan clan in Fiji: narrating the coloniser 'within' the colonised / Telling lives in Tuvalu / My history: my calling / Researching, (w)riting, releasing, and responses to a biography of Queen Salote of Tonga / On being a participant biographer: the search for J.W. Davidson / 'You did what, Mr President!?!?' trying to write a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama / Telling the life of A.D. Patel / On writing a biography of William Pritchard / Writing the colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands, 1898 to 1909 / An accidental biographer? on encountering, yet again, the ideas and actions of J.W. Burton / E.W.P. Chinnery: a self-made anthropologist / Lives told: Australians in Papua and New Guinea / Biography of a nation: compiling a historical dictionary of the Solomon Islands / Niel Gunson -- Deborah Van Heekeren -- Michael Goddard -- Wolfgang Kempf -- Christina Houen -- Pauline McKenzie Aucoin -- Lucy de Bruce -- Michael Goldsmith -- Alaima Talu -- Elizabeth Wood-Ellem -- Doug Munro -- David Hanlon -- Brij V. Lal -- Andrew E. Robson -- Graeme Whimp -- Christine Weir -- Geoffrey Gray -- Hank Nelson -- Clive Moore.
"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher
English.
9781921313820 192131382X
10.26530/OAPEN_459738 doi 459738
22573/ctt2361hx JSTOR
Anthropology.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Islands of the Pacific--Biography.
Islands of the Pacific--Anecdotes.
Islands of the Pacific--Civilization--Congresses.
Islands of the Pacific--Social life and customs--Congresses.
Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific.
ethnology. anthropology.
Electronic books.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.
DU28 / .T44 2008
990.0099
Title from PDF title page (viewed July 17, 2008).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Telling Pacific lives: from archetype to icon / The Kila Wari stories: framing a life and preserving a cosmology / From 'my story' to 'the story of myself'-colonial transformations of personal narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea / Mobility, modernisation and agency: the life story of John Kikang from Papua New Guinea / Surrogacy and the simulacra of desire in Heian Japanese Women's life writing / 'The story that came to me': gender, power and life history narratives-reflections on the ethics of ethnography in Fiji / A tartan clan in Fiji: narrating the coloniser 'within' the colonised / Telling lives in Tuvalu / My history: my calling / Researching, (w)riting, releasing, and responses to a biography of Queen Salote of Tonga / On being a participant biographer: the search for J.W. Davidson / 'You did what, Mr President!?!?' trying to write a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama / Telling the life of A.D. Patel / On writing a biography of William Pritchard / Writing the colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands, 1898 to 1909 / An accidental biographer? on encountering, yet again, the ideas and actions of J.W. Burton / E.W.P. Chinnery: a self-made anthropologist / Lives told: Australians in Papua and New Guinea / Biography of a nation: compiling a historical dictionary of the Solomon Islands / Niel Gunson -- Deborah Van Heekeren -- Michael Goddard -- Wolfgang Kempf -- Christina Houen -- Pauline McKenzie Aucoin -- Lucy de Bruce -- Michael Goldsmith -- Alaima Talu -- Elizabeth Wood-Ellem -- Doug Munro -- David Hanlon -- Brij V. Lal -- Andrew E. Robson -- Graeme Whimp -- Christine Weir -- Geoffrey Gray -- Hank Nelson -- Clive Moore.
"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher
English.
9781921313820 192131382X
10.26530/OAPEN_459738 doi 459738
22573/ctt2361hx JSTOR
Anthropology.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
Islands of the Pacific--Biography.
Islands of the Pacific--Anecdotes.
Islands of the Pacific--Civilization--Congresses.
Islands of the Pacific--Social life and customs--Congresses.
Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific.
ethnology. anthropology.
Electronic books.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.
DU28 / .T44 2008
990.0099