328 pp. May 1991
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-1333-8, $24.00
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Pacific
Melanesia
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Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past
by Klaus Neumann
Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 10
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH
"One of the most innovative monographs in recent Pacific Islands studies" --Reviews in Anthropology
Klaus Neumann studied history, political science, and education at Frankfurt University and went on to receive his PhD in Pacific history from the Australian National University. He has worked as a teacher, journalist, mail carrier, proofreader, and youth worker, and is now a senior research fellow at Swinburne University in Melbourne.
"Neumann's main concern is with the very essence of the historical enterprise itself. On the one hand, he is concerned to write a history of the Tolai's colonial experience through a series of incidents and a variety of reports or memories of them. The result is not a single history, but rather multiple histories that are themselves montages of varying complexity. In many respects, however, the Tolai history (or histories) is but a vehicle for addressing a larger set of issues about the nature of history and the work of its practitioners. The histories of other peoples would have served equally well." -from the Editor's Note
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