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Book SynopsisAs new nations emerge in the Pacific Islands region, political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. This volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that aim to challenge simplistic paradigms of "area study".
Trade ReviewVoyaging through the Contemporary Pacific navigates the reader through nineteen defining articles published between 1989 and 1999 in the first ten volumes of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs. Cultural critics, historicans, and anthropologists will find the methodological and theoretical concerns addressed in this volume of essential global importance. * Oceana *
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into avariety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands... * Journal Of The Polynesian Society *
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into a variety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands. * Journal Of The Polynesian Society *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 PART I: Re-Imagining the Pacific Chapter 3 Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific Chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within Chapter 5 bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans Chapter 6 The Ocean in Us Part 7 PART II: The Politics and Poetics of History in the Pacific Chapter 8 History in the Pacific Chapter 9 Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam Chapter 10 In Order to Win their Friendship: Renegotiating First Contact Chapter 11 Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Histiography or Problematic Paradigm Part 12 PART III: Cultural Politics Chapter 13 Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific Chapter 14 Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle Chapter 15 Reply to Trask Chapter 16 Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholorship Chapter 17 Specters of Inauthenticity Chapter 18 The Sin at Awarua Part 19 PART IV: Cultural Media(tions) Chapter 20 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff Chapter 21 Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion’s The Piano Chapter 22 Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu Chapter 23 Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web
