Telling Pacific Lives Prisms of Process

How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary men and women, from lives told of both the famous and the nameless, this collec...

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Other Authors: Lal, Brij V. (Editor), Luker, Vicki (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: ANU Press 2008
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