Contents: Verena Keck, Introduction -- Part One: Prologue -- Sir Raymond Firth, Reflections on Knowledge in an Oceanic Setting -- Part Two: Embodied Personhood -- Borut Telban, Body, Being and Identity in Ambonwari, Papua New Guinea -- Andree Grau, On the Acquisition of Knowledge: Teaching Kinship through the body among the Tiwi of Northern Australia -- Christina Toren, Cannibalism and Compassion: Transformations in Fijian Notions of the Person -- Part Three: Changing Life Histories -- Andrew Strathern, A Turn of the Rope: Two Life-Histories from Mount Hagen -- Lisette Josephides, Kewa Portraits: A Different Kind of Biography -- Part Four: Local Recasting of Christianity -- Anna Paini, HMI Samoa and HMI Oui-oui: Local Recasting of Christianity by Lifuans (Loyalty Islands) -- Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Appropriating the Other: A Case study from New Britain -- Part Five: Experiencing Outside Worlds -- Ronald Adams, Tannese Cultural Journeys -- Allen Abramson, The Articulation of Property and Non-Property Relations in Land in the Interior of ‘Big Fiji': The Fate of the Particularising Relation -- Elfriede Hermann, Deeply Felt Knowledge: Integrating Thoughts and Emotions in Knowing the Past -- Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk, Responses of Kwanga Women to Intrusion into the Female Realm -- Beatriz Moral, Chuukese Women's Status: Traditional and Modern Elements -- Part Six: Appropriating New Forms of Knowledge -- Pierre Lemonnier, Showing the Invisible. Violence and Politics among the Ankave-Anga (Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea) -- Milan Stanek & Florence Weiss, Big Man and Big Woman in the Village -- Elite in the Town -- Erik Venbrux, Why do the Tiwi want a New Township? A Case Study of Australian Aboriginal Brokers and the Politics of ‘Development' -- Barbara Luem, Tinpis Running in Tuvalu: Reactions to Video as a New Medium: A Case Study -- Ingjerd Hoem, Staging a Political Challenge: The Story of Tokelau Te Ata -- Part Seven: Epilogue -- Marilyn Strathern, The New Modernities