How not to write biography / Donald Denoon -- Observing the present: writing the past / Hank Nelson -- Sniffing the person: writing lives in Pacific history / Peter Hempenstall --Would the biographers please stand up / Doug Munro -- An indigenous perspective? Inside the mind of Maa̕fu / John Spurway -- While the gun is still smoking: witnessing participant history / Brij V. Lal -- Resurrecting the Foulards Rouges: how old is history? / David Chappell -- J.W. Davidson: the making of a participant historian / Doug Monro -- Solomon Islands history: writing with and about Malaitans at home and abroad / Clive Moore -- From Kepai of Enga to Divine Word University, 1979-1999: exploring issues of 'history as social memory' in Papua New Guinea / Roderic Lacey -- Converting pasts and presents: reflections on histories of missionary enterprises in the Pacific / David Hanlon -- Writing of the lotu-bearers / Christine Weir -- Conveying the text in context / Andrew Thornley
Summary
Over the last fifty years Pacific history has become a vast and complex multi-disciplinary subject for analysis practiced by a great range of the professionally interested noting all changes
Analysis
History (Oceania,Pacific Ocean,Pacific Rim countries) Multicultural studies