Clio in Oceania : toward a historical anthropology

Clio in Oceania : toward a historical anthropology / edited by Aletta Biersack.

Other author/creator	Biersack, Aletta.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1991.
Description	vii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Ethnohistory--Oceania. Ethnology--Oceania. Oceania--Historiography. Oceania--History.

Contents	Introduction : history and theory in anthropology / Aletta Biersack -- The return of the event, again ; with reflections on the beginnings of the great Fijian War of 1843 to 1855 between the kingdoms of Bau and Rewa / Marshall Sahlins -- The transformation of a transformation : a structural essay on an aspect of Hawaiian history (1809 to 1819) / Valerio Valeri -- Inside, outside : a Hawaiian community in the world-system / Jocelyn Linnekin -- Struggles for meaning / Andrew J. Strathern -- Prisoners of time : millenarian praxis in a Melanesian Valley / Aletta Biersack -- Alejandro Mayta in Fiji : narratives about millenarianism, colonialism, postcolonial politics, and custom / Nicholas Thomas -- New Ireland is shaped like a rifle and we are at the trigger : the power of digestion in cultural reproduction / Roy Wagner -- A poetic for histories : transformations that present the past / Greg Dening.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	90009765
ISBN	0874743044 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	GN662.C57 1990	✔ Available	Place Hold