Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past / Klaus Neumann. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Klaus, 1958-

Series:

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 10

Pacific Islands monograph series Not the way it really was

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolai (Melanesian people)--History.

Tolai (Melanesian people).

Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social conditions.

Oral tradition--Papua New Guinea--Raluana.

Oral tradition.

Raluana (Papua New Guinea)--Historiography.

Raluana (Papua New Guinea).

Tolai (Melanesian people)--History--Papua New Guinea--Raluana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 310 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Note

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

Conventions

1 Account of a Defeat

2 Setting Out

3 ToMarnakat Was a Real Human Being

4 Of People and Place

5 The Coming of the Lotu

6 Oral Traditions as Histories?

7 He Went Down in History as a Man of Faith and a Staunch Leader

8 History and the Control of Land

9 The Kivung, Enos Teve, and the Urge to Do Something

10 Of Money, Work, and Death

11 Dark Ages

12 Tami Kastom and Tolai Ways

13 Variations on the Alienation of Land

14 The Resurrection of the Past

15 Constructing the Tolai Past

Notes

Glossary of Tolai Terms

References

Index

Notes:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8248-4709-1

0-585-33243-6

OCLC:

1322125300