Continuity and constraint: Reconstructing the concept of tradition from a Pacific perspective

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 345-381

  Turner, James West ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Fiji coups; Postmodernism; Praxis; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031215297     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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