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Shifting images of identity in the Pacific. Leiden: KITLV Press, (OCoLC) Material Type: Internet resource: Document Type: Book, Internet Resource: All Authors / Contributors: Toon van Meijl; Jelle Miedema. This book examines how identities emerge, persist and change in various Pacific societies.

The shifting images of identity are explored in pre-colonial, colonial as well as post-colonial circumstances. All the essays in this volume address both continuity and discontinuity in the construction of identities in the rapidly changing Pacific region.

Title: Introduction: Shifting images of identity in the Pacific: Author(s): Meijl, A.H.M. van: Publication year: Cited by: 2. Subject: Dynamics of culture and power: Organization: SW OZ RSCR CAOS: Languages used: English (eng)Cited by: 6.

Shifting images of identity in the Pacific. Leiden: Kitlv Press. MLA Citation. Miedema, Jelle. and Meijl, Toon van. and Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands). Shifting images of identity in the Pacific / edited by Toon van Meijl and Jelle Miedema Kitlv Press Leiden Australian/Harvard Citation.

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Major publications include the co-edited volumes Property Rights and Economic Development; Land and Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania () and Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific (). Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University.

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The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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