Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editor's Note VII
3. Contents IX
4. Maps X
5. Acknowledgments XI
6. Conventions XV
7. 1 Account of a Defeat 1
8. 2 Setting Out 40
9. 3 ToMarnakat Was a Real Human Being 50
10. 4 Of People and Place 70
11. 5 The Coming of the Lotu 81
12. 6 Oral Traditions as Histories? 106
13. 7 He Went Down in History as a Man of Faith and a Staunch Leader 125
14. 8 History and the Control of Land 141
15. 9 The Kivung, Enos Teve, and the Urge to Do Something 156
16. 10 Of Money, Work, and Death 183
17. 11 Dark Ages 204
18. 12 Tami Kastom and Tolai Ways 212
19. 13 Variations on the Alienation of Land 229
20. 14 The Resurrection of the Past 238
21. 15 Constructing the Tolai Past 249
22. Notes 263
23. Glossary of Tolai Terms 281
24. References 287
25. Index 301