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Title Pacific lives, Pacific places : bursting boundaries in Pacific history / edited by Brij B. Lal and Peter Hempenstall
Published Canberra : Journal of Pacific History, 2001

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 W'PONDS  995.0072 Lal/Plp  AVAILABLE
Description 190 pages : maps ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [177]-187
SUBJECT Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004833
Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Author Lal, Brij V.
Hempenstall, Peter J.
Pacific History Association.
Pacific History Association. Conference (2000 : Canberra)
LC no. 2003386928
ISBN 0958586314
OTHER TI The Journal of Pacific history