Geoffrey White is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa Department of Anthropology. He has worked in Santa Isabel off and on since 1975. His publications based on that fieldwork include Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (1991) and Cheke Holo (Maringe/Hograno) Dictionary (co-authored, 1988). His research on wider Solomon Islands and Pacific topics is published in a number of co-edited volumes, notably Pacific Alternatives: Cultural Politics in Contemporary Oceania (2015), Culture, Kastom, Tradition: Cultural Policy in Melanesia (1994) and The Big Death: Solomon Islanders Remember World War II (1988).
