Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific - Hardcover

 
9780824823863: Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific

Synopsis

What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? This work offers responses to such a question, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations and proposing explanations that show cultural memory processes.

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Review

"[A] splendid collection. . . . [O]ne that is going to be quoted a lot in the future."

About the Author

Jeannette Marie Mageo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. She has lived and done extensive fieldwork in the Pacific, and she writes about self, power, transvesticism, spirit possession, moral discourse and body symbolism.

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