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Nation Making:

Emergent Identities

in

Postcolonial

Melanesia

edited by

Robert J. Foster


1995

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

from 1991 Working Session

Introduction:
The Work of Nation Making
Robert J. Foster
 
Part 1: Issues and Problems
 
The Formation of Nation-States and National Cultures in Oceania
Edward LiPuma
 
Part 2: Instruments and Narratives of "The Nation"
 
Occupying the Headwaters of Tradition: Rhetorical Strategies of Nation Making in Fiji
Henry J. Rutz
 
Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak: Ritual Politics and the Nation in Independent Fiji
Martha Kaplan
 
Stepping-stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands Case
Christine Jourdan
 
Print Advertisements and Nation Making in Metropolitan Papua New Guinea
Robert J. Foster
 
Part 3: Unmaking Nations? Local Appropriations of "The Nation"
 
Local Persons, Metropolitan Names: Contending Forms of Simultaneity among the Fuyuge, Papua New Guinea
Eric Hirsch
 
Kastom and Nation Making: The Politicization of Tradition on Nguna, Vanuatu
Ellen Facey
 
Vanishing Nations and the Infiltration of Nationalism: The Case of Papua New Guinea
Michael Jacobsen
 
Epilogue:
The Privileges of Citizenship: Nations, States, Markets, and Narratives
John D. Kelly

     

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