Identity Work
Subtitle: Constructing Pacific Lives (Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania Monographs)
Contributors: Pamela J. Stewart (Editor); Andrew Strathern (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780822957164
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; General; History Of Women (General); Social History; Women; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Oceania; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Women's Studies - General; Biographical methods; Ethnology; Identity (Psychology)
Description: An examination of the position held by life-story narratives in anthropological writings. By tracing themes in the life of a subject represented, the authors show how a person can be both linked to and alienated from their social world through their own developing experiences.