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1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
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Studies in narrative ; volume 21
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Studies in narrative ; v. 21.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Editor's note -- Glossing abbreviations -- About the authors -- Introduction -- References -- Part I. Inside the storyworld -- 1. Moving through space and (not?) time: North Australian Dreamtime narratives -- 1. Dreamtime stories of Australia -- 2. Spatial and motion structure in Jaminjung narratives -- 3. Travel through time and space: Kriol narratives -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. We've never seen a cyclone like this: Exploring self-concept and narrator characterisation in Aul -- Dividuals and individuals in Melanesia -- Methods of enquiry -- Cyclone Ivy and the Aulua community -- Possible strategies for dividualist narrators -- Analysis of the narratives -- Features of dividual narration -- An individualist narration? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Telling narratives, constructing identities -- 3. Local ecological knowledge in Mortlockese narrative: Stance, identity, and knowing -- Pakin Atoll -- Knowledge, identity, and stance -- Analysis -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- 4. Small stories and associated identity in Neverver -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Neverver speakers -- 3. Person reference possibilities in Neverver -- 4. Person reference work in small stories -- 5. Person reference and identity -- References -- 5. "Sometime is lies": Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages -- Approaching island narratives -- Constraints on narratives -- Leaving the narratives behind -- References -- Part III. Narrative memories, cultures and identities -- 6. Constructing Kanaka Maoli identity through narrative: A glimpse into native Hawaiian narratives a -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kanaka Maoli identity constructed through mo'olelo and ka'ao. |
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3. Establishing Hawaiian literacy -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 7. 'Stories of long ago' and the forces of modernity in South Pentecost -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dun na gol -- variation -- 3. Chief Telkon Watas' dun na gol -- 4. From orality to written text -- 5. Variations and values -- 6. Concluding comments -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8. Australian South Sea Islanders' narratives of belonging -- Narratives by historians -- The islander voice -- Political and government narratives -- The media narrative -- Explaining the slavery narrative -- Conclusion -- References -- 9. Avatars of Fiji's Girmit narrative -- Indian indenture: Beginnings -- Indenture: Social and moral conditions -- Post-indenture narrative -- Revival of interest in indenture discourse -- Indenture narrative beyond servitude -- Girmit beyond Fiji -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10. Samoan narratives: Sociocultural perspectives -- Traditional narratives -- Telling stories to learn -- Contemporary media -- Literary writing and recording of stories -- Samoan migrant writing -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- 11. "[P]ulling tomorrow's sky from [the] kete": Culture-specific narrative representations of re/mem -- Structure, characterisation strategies and character constellation -- Storytelling and the oral traditions -- Fight for the land and the voice of the earth -- References -- 12. Beyond exile: The Ramayana as a living narrative among Indo-Fijians in Fiji and New Zealand -- The Ramcaritmanas in Fiji: The text and its interpreters -- Fellowship with the Virtuous: Ramayana recital and ethnic identity -- Encountering the Indian "other": The Ramayan mandali in New Zealand -- Beyond exile: A living narrative -- References -- 13. Embodied silent narratives of masculinities: Some perspectives from Guam Chamorros -- 1. The Chamorro masculine pre-Hispanic body. |
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2. Mythical and religious narratives of the body -- 3. Silent martial narratives of the (de)-colonized body -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
Post-structural and post-modern theories have understood the concept of gender as a "fictitious" element rooted exclusively in a linguistic reality (see Butler, 1990), constituted by an illusory metaphysic of substances. Therefore, for these schools, "there is no gender identity behind the expression of gender" and consequently, gender is exclusively "performatively constituted" (Butler, 1990, 25), mainly as an "effect" of discursive practices. However, if we consider narrative in its wider anthropological sense, we should include not only non-verbal narratives, but also what the anthropology of experience name the "arguments of images" that may or may not have their source in language (see Fernandez, 1986, 164). We analyse this visual narrative through a consideration of Guam Chamorros' constructions of masculinity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Pacific Area.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Pacific Area. |
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Narrative inquiry (Research method) -- Pacific Area.
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Narrative inquiry (Research method) |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Social aspects. |
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Intercultural communication -- Social aspects.
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Intercultural communication -- Social aspects. |
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Intercultural communication. |
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Intercultural communication -- Pacific Area.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gounder, Farzana, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Narrative and identity construction in the Pacific Islands. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027249340 (DLC) 2014049672 |
| ISBN |
9789027268679 (pdf) |
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9027268673 (pdf) |
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9789027249340 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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