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Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities (review)

Theorizing Self in Samoa: Emotions, Genders, and Sexualities (review) 09-CP 12-1 (br pp.256-293) 2/21/00 8:27 AM Page 277 book reviews 277 transmitted by Pacific Islanders, to the on dance as the communication of researcher as well as to the audience meaning through the body, exemplifies of scholarly texts. Andrew Strathern the boldness of many of the contribu- in “A Twist of the Rope” writes about tors in returning, perhaps in new lan- the contrasting experiences of pro- guage, to long-standing concerns. ducing a life history, first with the Common Worlds and Single Lives: renowned Ongka and then with his Constituting Knowledge in Pacific contemporary Ru. He concludes, “If Societies has much to offer anyone autobiographical life history as a genre interested in ethnography as a way of has something potentially important knowing the world. It provides a con- to tell us, it is because it represents a venient outline of the discipline’s strug- moment in which the teller makes the gle with basic concepts and issues, as transformation from his or her own well as a rich array of ethnographic embodiment to a self-projected objec- instances that lead to engaged reflec- tification” (134). Lisette Josephides tion. recounts complex Kewa “stories” of marta rohatynskyj divorce, remarriage, and dispute set- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2000 University of Hawai'i Press.
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1527-9464

Abstract

09-CP 12-1 (br pp.256-293) 2/21/00 8:27 AM Page 277 book reviews 277 transmitted by Pacific Islanders, to the on dance as the communication of researcher as well as to the audience meaning through the body, exemplifies of scholarly texts. Andrew Strathern the boldness of many of the contribu- in “A Twist of the Rope” writes about tors in returning, perhaps in new lan- the contrasting experiences of pro- guage, to long-standing concerns. ducing a life history, first with the Common Worlds and Single Lives: renowned Ongka and then with his Constituting Knowledge in Pacific contemporary Ru. He concludes, “If Societies has much to offer anyone autobiographical life history as a genre interested in ethnography as a way of has something potentially important knowing the world. It provides a con- to tell us, it is because it represents a venient outline of the discipline’s strug- moment in which the teller makes the gle with basic concepts and issues, as transformation from his or her own well as a rich array of ethnographic embodiment to a self-projected objec- instances that lead to engaged reflec- tification” (134). Lisette Josephides tion. recounts complex Kewa “stories” of marta rohatynskyj divorce, remarriage, and dispute set-

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The Contemporary PacificUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Feb 1, 2001

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