White, Geoffrey M.

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WHITE, Geoffrey M.

WHITE, Geoffrey M. American, b. 1949. Genres: Cultural/Ethnic topics. Career: East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, research fellow, 1978-, director of Program for Cultural Studies, 1992-95; University of Hawaii at Manoa, professor of anthropology, 2000-. University of California, San Diego, visiting lecturer, 1985-86. Publications: (with F. Kokhonigita and H. Pulomana) Cheke Holo Dictionary, 1988; (with Lindstrom) Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War, 1990; Identity through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society, 1991. Work represented in books. Contributor of articles and reviews to anthropology journals. EDITOR: (with A.J. Marsella) Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy, 1982; (with D. Gegeo, D. Akin, and K. Watson-Gegeo) The Big Death: Solomon Islanders Remember World War II, 1988. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with J. Kirkpatrick) Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethno- Psychologies, 1985; (with L. Lindstrom) The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II, 1989; (with Watson-Gegeo) Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies, 1990; (with T. Schwartz and C. Lutz) New Directions in Psychological Anthropology, 1992; (with D. Hanlon) Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific, 2000; (with T. Fujitani and L. Yonayamu) Perilous Memories, 2001. Address: Dept of Anthropology, 2424 Maile Way, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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