Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. On Memory Genres: Tendencies in Cultural Remembering 11
5. I. Recollecting Cultural History and Identity
6. Chapter 2. Remembering Freedom and the Freedom to Remember: Tongan Memories of Independence 37
7. Chapter 3. The Third Meaning in Cultural Memory: History, Identity, and Spirit Possession in Samoa Jeannette 58
8. Chapter 4. Elision or Decision: Lived History and the Contextual Grounding of the Constructed Past 81
9. II. Positionality, Ambiguity, and Ambivalence 103
10. Chapter 5. Memory, Power, and Loss in Rawa Discourse 105
11. Chapter 6. Recounting and Remembering “First Contact” on Simbo 130
12. Chapter 7. Memory and Conviction: Colonial Tales of Prisoners in the New Hebrides 163
13. III. Colonial Continuities/Discontinuities III. in Cultural Memory 185
14. Chapter 8. Re-Membering the History of the Hawaiian Hula 187
15. Chapter 9. Afterword: On the Befores and Afters of the Encounter 205
16. Contributors 217
17. Index 219