Background
White, Geoffrey Miles was born on November 11, 1949 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of Stephen Theodore and Marjorie Elizabeth White.
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Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
(For people who live in small communities transformed by p...)
For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimized by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
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ISLAND ENCOUNTERS: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
("Island Encounters explores the massive and sudden contac...)
"Island Encounters explores the massive and sudden contact between two worlds-powerful military forces and Pacific islanders-blending oral histories recorded in the islands after World War ll with more than 175 photographs gleaned from hundreds of thousands reposing in Japanese newspaper morgues, the private albums of U.S. veterans, and Allied military archives."
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ISLAND ENCOUNTERS: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War by Lamont Lindstrom (1990-09-17)
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Geoffrey Miles White
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Geoffrey Miles White, American Anthropologist. Recipient Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book prize, Japan, 1992; IntrepretiveRsch. Project grantee National Endowment for Humanities, 1987-1989, Summer Seminar director National Endowment for Humanities, 1991, 93, 95, 97; Research grantee Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York.
Education
Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology, Princeton University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 1978.
Career
Research associate, East-West Center, Honolulu, 1978-1992; senior fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, since 1992; director cultural studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, 1992-1995.
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ISLAND ENCOUNTERS: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
("Island Encounters explores the massive and sudden contac...)
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Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
(For people who live in small communities transformed by p...)
- ISLAND ENCOUNTERS: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War by Lamont Lindstrom (1990-09-17)
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ISLAND ENCOUNTERS: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
Membership
Member American Anthropol. Association (Stirling award 1978), American Ethnological Society, Society for Psychological Anthropology (board directors 1988-1990).
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Married Nancy Ann Montgomery, June 17, 1978. 1 child, Michael Geoffrey.
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Recipient Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book prize, Japan, 1992. IntrepretiveRsch. Project grantee National Endowment for Humanities, 1987-1989, Summer Seminar director National Endowment for Humanities, 1991, 93, 95, 97. Research grantee Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York.Recipient Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book prize, Japan, 1992. IntrepretiveRsch. Project grantee National Endowment for Humanities, 1987-1989, Summer Seminar director National Endowment for Humanities, 1991, 93, 95, 97. Research grantee Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York.