Telling Pacific Lives
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Telling Pacific Lives
Prisms of Process
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. From Archetype to Icon
Acknowledgements
Chapter 2. The Kila Wari Stories
Genealogy as Wealth and Preface
Meeting Kila Wari
Telling the Battles of Kila Wari with Some Contributions from Western History
The Death of Kila Wari
The View from the Other Side: A Babaka Story
Myth, History, and Existence: Some Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Chapter 3. From ‘My Story’ to ‘The Story of Myself’
Motu-Koita Mythopoeia
Representing Tatana
Bobby Gaigo’s Story
Law, History and Autobiography
Chapter 4. The Life Story of John Kikang from Papua New Guinea
Methods and Materials
Chronology
Dialogue
Final Remarks
Chapter 5. Desire in Heian Japanese Women’s Life Writing
Chapter 6. ‘The Story that Came to Me’
Chapter 7. A Tartan Clan in Fiji
A Culture of Forgetting
Background to a Colonial ‘Problem’
European Assimilation
Race Mixing and the Blended Child in a Colonial State
Narrating the Coloniser ‘Within’ the Colonised
An American Tartan Clan in Fiji
Chapter 8. Telling Lives in Tuvalu
Chapter 9. My History: My Calling
Mission History
Family Background
1963-1968 Te Po o Tefolaha — Departure Day!
The Trip to Tarawa
First School
The Nuns and
Te Buaka
Immaculate Heart College, Taborio
Conversion—First Signs
Changes in the Church
Tarawa Teachers’ College
1969-1972—First Teaching Experience
Conversion to the Catholic Church
Why I Became a Catholic
The Novitiate: 1972-1975
Chapter 10. Biography of Queen Salote of Tonga
Chapter 11. The Search for J.W. Davidson
Chapter 12. Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama
Postscript:
Chapter 13. Telling the Life of A.D. Patel
Chapter 14. Biography of William Pritchard
Chapter 15. Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands
Chapter 16. Ideas and Actions of J.W. Burton
Chapter 17. E.W.P. Chinnery
A Biography of Chinnery
Colonial Government
Helping and Understanding
Chinnery at Cambridge
Return to Papua
Government Anthropologist
Chapter 18. Australians in Papua and New Guinea
Bibliography
Biographies Published since December 2005
Chapter 19. Biography of a Nation
Volume One
Volume Two
Committee
Solomon Star and SIBC
National Competition
Funding
Publication and Editing
Referees and Overseas Contributors
National Library
The Pitfalls of Writing Entries
Conclusion
Notes on Contributors
Index