Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/T2fh8mT Identity through History Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society By: Geoffrey M. White Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print ISBN: 9780521401722, 0521401720 eText ISBN: 9780511878725, 0511878729 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 43.00 USD SKU 9780511878725 For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
