Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific

by Hanlon, David; White, Geoffrey M.; Bolton, Lissant; Chappell, David A.; Dening, Greg; Diaz, Vicente M.; DuPuis, Reshela; Finney, Ben; Fry, Greg; Gegeo, David W.; Hau’ofa, Epeli; Howard, Alan; Jolly, Margaret; Trask, Haunani-Kay; Keesing, Roger M.; Linneki

• ISBN13: 9780742500440
• ISBN10: 0742500446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-08
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Pacific has long been a site for debates over disciplinary approaches and the ethics and politics of research within neocolonial and postcolonial contexts. This volume makes a significant contribution to these debates and to the related and ongoing exchanges concerning area studies, the globalization of capitalism, and its attendant cultural, social, and political effects. In so doing, the authors link work from the Pacific with theoretical and methodological issues raised in other areas of the globe. This collection of the best from Contemporary Pacific will prove invaluable to scholars, students and all interested in the study of history, culture, and identity in the Pacific and in (post) colonial societies everywhere.

Author Biography

Lissant Bolton is curator of the Pacific and Australian Collections at the British Museum David A. Chappell is associate professor in the Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Greg Dening in his retirement is adjunct professor with the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University Vicente M. Diaz is associate professor of Pacific history and current chair of the Master's degree program in Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam Reshela DuPuis is currently assistant professor of American and Women's Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Ben Finney is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, as well as co-chair of the Space and Society Department at the International Space University Greg Fry is the Hedley Bull Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University David Welchman Gegeo teaches in the Liberal Studies Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay David Hanlon teaches Pacific Islands history at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Epeli Hau'ofa is director of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Alan Howard is professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Margaret Jolly is professor and convenor of the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University Roger M. Keesing was professor of anthropology at McGill University when he passed away in 1993 Jocelyn Linnekin is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut Klaus Neumann is an independent historian and lives on Waiheke Island, Aotearoa New Zealand Teresia K. Teaiwa is lecturer in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington Christina A. Thompson is a former East-West Center fellow and editor of the Australian quarterly, Meanjin Haunani-Kay Trask is a poet, scholar, and founder of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Geoffrey M. White is senior fellow at the East-West Center and professor of anthropology with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Map of the Pacific Islands	x
Introduction	1	(24)
David Hanlon
Geoffrey M. White
Part I: Re-Imagining the Pacific
Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the ``South Pacific''	25	(39)
Greg Fry
Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within	64	(27)
David W. Gegeo
bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans	91	(22)
Teresia K. Teaiwa
The Ocean in Us	113	(22)
Epeli Hau`ofa
Part II: The Politics and Poetics of History
History ``in'' the Pacific	135	(6)
Greg Dening
Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam	141	(30)
Vicente M. Diaz
``In Order to Win Their Friendship'': Renegotiating First Contact	171	(34)
Klaus Neumann
Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Historiography or Problematic Paradigm?	205	(26)
David A. Chappell
Part III: Cultural Politics
Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific	231	(24)
Roger M. Keesing
Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle	255
Haunani-Kay Trask
Reply to Trask	164	(104)
Roger M. Keesing
Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholarship	268	(6)
Jocelyn Linnekin
Specters of Inauthenticity	274	(24)
Margaret Jolly
The Sin at Awarua	298	(35)
Ben Finney
Part IV: Cultural Media(tions)
In Whose Face? An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff	333	(16)
Christina A. Thompson
Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's The Piano	349	(28)
Reshela DuPuis
Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu	377	(26)
Lissant Bolton
Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web	403	(16)
Alan Howard
Credits	419	(2)
Index	421	(18)
About the Editors and Contributors	439