Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : History and theory in anthropology / Biersack, A.
  • The Return of the Event, Again ; with reflections on the beginnings of the great Fijian war of 1843 to 1855 between the kingdoms of Bau and Rewa / Sahlins, M.
  • The Transformation of a Transformation : A structural essay on an aspect of Hawaiian history (1809 to 1819) / Valeri, V.
  • Inside, Outside: a Hawaiian community in the world-system / Linnelin, J.
  • Struggles for Meaning / Strathern, A. J.
  • Prisoners of Time: Millenarian praxis in a Melanesian valley / Biersack, A.
  • Alejandro Mayta in Fiji: Narratives about millenarianism, colonialism, postcolonial politics and custom / Thomas, N.
  • New Ireland is Shaped Like a Rifle and we are at the Trigger: The power of digestion in cultural reproduction / Wagner, R.
  • A Poetic for Histories: Transformations that present the past / Dening, G.