This book emphasizes that Indigenous spirituality is an inherent and living part of Pacific personhood. It highlights the central role of names, naming practices, knowledge, ways of being and seeing, as well as identities and belonging as core elements of indigeneity in the Pacific.

Vaai, Upolu Luma, and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, eds. 2020. The Relational Self: Decolonising Personhood in the Pacific. Suva: University of the South Pacific and The Pacific Theological College.