Oral Tradition in Melanesia
Description
Historians used to be interested mainly in the actions and ideas of a few powerful men. Until the Pacific War ended, and many former colonial territories became independent, those few powerful men were European political and military leaders, who wrote books, kept diaries, and corresponded with other people like themselves. Historians, often literate Europeans themselves, were content to reconstruct the past using the written remains of their heroes. Three related events have changed this...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Pacific Institute |
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Date published: | 1981 |
Type: | Book |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/126307 |
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