Cultural Memory
Subtitle: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780824823863
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history: from c 1900 -; Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Social Science; Ethnopsychology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; North Pacific; South Pacific; Social aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; World - Post-Colonial Studies; Ethnicity; Memory; Oceania
Description: What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? This work offers responses to this question and others, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations, and proposing explanations that show cultural memory processes.