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Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past / Klaus Neumann.

Title
Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past / Klaus Neumann.
Author
Neumann, Klaus, 1958-
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1992.

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Description
xvi, 310 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 10
Uniform Title
Pacific islands monograph series no. 10.
Subject
  • Tolai (Melanesian people) > History
  • Tolai (Melanesian people) > Social conditions
  • Oral tradition > Raluana
  • Raluana (Papua New Guinea) > Historiography
Genre/Form
  • Academic Dissertation
  • Academic theses
  • History
  • History (form)
  • Thèses et écrits académiques.
Thesis (note)
  • Thesis (Ph. D.)--Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1988.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Account of a defeat -- Setting out -- ToMarnakat was a real human being -- Of people and place -- Coming of the Lotu -- Oral traditions as histories? -- He went down in history as a man of faith and a staunch leader -- History and the control of land -- Kivung, Enos Teve, and urge to do something -- Of money, work and death -- Dark ages -- Tami Kastom and Tolai ways -- Variations on the alienation of land -- Resurrection of the past -- Constructing the Tolai past.
ISBN
0824813332 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^91028884^
OCLC
  • 24246814
  • SCSB-10013738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library