No. 3 July-September 2001
CONTENTS
“Pacific Worlds, Atlantic
Worlds” at New York University
Pacific Retrospective at HIFF
Hereniko Films Fire in the Womb
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific
EWC International Student Conference
CPIS Students in SPICOL at USP
Occasional Seminars
Murray Chapman Retires
Faculty Activities
Students and Alumni
EWC Welcomes New Pacific Students
Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge
Publications and Videos
Conferences
Bulletin Board
The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and
Institute of New York University, in New York City, is hosting a Pacific
studies symposium, “Pacific Islands, Atlantic Worlds,” 25–27
October 2001. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is a cosponsor of this
symposium, which serves as the center’s twenty-sixth annual conference.
Pacific Islands, Atlantic Worlds will explore zones of
artistic, academic, and political contact between Pacific islands and Atlantic
worlds. How are the Pacific Islands historically linked to the Atlantic
seaboard? How are they connected
in the contemporary moment? Can
Pacific Islands studies be stretched beyond Oceanic sites to the far reaches of
the Atlantic? Building on other diasporic and institutional initiatives, this
symposium will emphasize resource-sharing for scholars conducting research and
teaching about the Pacific Islands on the East Coast and across the US
continent. It will also provide an
introduction to a broad range of developments in Pacific studies, bringing
together faculty from the Pacific region with scholars and students on the US
continent.
The conference opens on Thursday evening with a
reception and an art exhibit, “Coming of Age in Amelika,” featuring
artists Jewel Castro and Dan
Taulapapa McMullin. Sessions on
Friday and Saturday include:
-- Identifying the “Native” in Pacific
Studies
-- Anthropological
Engagements with Self-Determination and Decolonization
-- US Continental Pacific Islander Diaspora
-- Pacific Studies Developments Outside Oceania
-- Shifting Engagements: Contemporary Pacific Cultural
Productions
-- A Dialogue with Artists, Writers, and Performers
-- Locating Pacific Museum Collections on the East
Coast
--Teaching Pacific Studies on the East Coast.
“Salt Water Feet,” a multimedia dance
production by Julia Gray and
Katerina Teaiwa, with performances
by Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Teresia Teaiwa,
and Vaimoana Litia Makakaufaki Niumeitolu,
takes place on Friday evening. Screenings of contemporary films from the
Pacific diaspora preface the conference on the evenings of 22–24 October.
The symposium convener is Adria L Imada (NYU American Studies); symposium
co-organizers are Dr J Kehaulani Kauanui
(Wesleyan University) and Dr Anne-Marie Tupuola
(New York University and Columbia University). Information is posted at
http://www.apa.nyu.edu/pacific.
The symposium is free, but registration is required.
For logistical information, contact Fannie Chan
at apa.studies@nyu.edu, or the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program &
Institute, 269 Mercer St. Suite 609, New York, NY 10003; tel: (212) 998-3700;
fax: (212) 995-4705.
Barry Barclay to Receive
First Legacy Appreciation Award and Deliver Keynote at Symposium
As part of ongoing efforts to bring historically
significant Pacific media to community audiences, Legacy Foundation of the
Pacific will present a retrospective of Pacific Islands film, video, and
television during the Hawai‘i International Film Festival (HIFF),
2–10 November 2001. Legacy Foundation, headed by filmmaker Esther Figueroa, is a new nonprofit dedicated
to the preservation of Pacific cultures, with a special focus on preservation
of, and access to, Pacific media. The retrospective, “Oceania
Revealed,” follows the enthusiastically received retrospective of
Hawai‘i films organized by Figueroa for the 2000 HIFF. It will take
viewers on a journey through time, place and genre. Covering a century of
filmmaking and crossing the Pacific from Palau and Papua New Guinea to Aotearoa
New Zealand and Rapa Nui, it will navigate the history of filmmaking through
features, ethnographic films, narrative shorts, documentaries, community video
making, and television programming.
The retrospective, which is open to the public free of
charge, will be shown at the Hawai‘i Convention Center. It will begin on
2 November from noon to 5:00 pm with an edited five-hour compilation of short
films and film excerpts covering eighty years of filmmaking in Oceania.
Continuous screenings will begin on subsequent mornings at 10 am:
3 Nov classic feature films about the
Pacific from the earliest film era
4 Nov feature films made by Pacific
Islanders
5 Nov documentaries about Polynesia
6 Nov documentaries about Melanesia
7 Nov the works of Barry Barclay and
films from Australia
8 Nov documentaries about Micronesia
9 Nov documentaries and narrative works
from Aotearoa New Zealand.
From 5–9 November, viewings and discussion
groups will be led by scholars Alexander Mawyer,
Lynette Cruz, Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, and Michele and Misa
Tupou. Barry Barclay will lead a discussion of his
most recent film, Feathers of Peace.
During the HIFF award ceremonies on 8 November, Barry
Barclay will be presented with the Legacy Appreciation Award for his
groundbreaking and inspiring work as a filmmaker, writer, and tireless advocate
for the rights of indigenous people, particularly Maori. The award honors his
leadership in the arena of Pacific media preservation and his dedication to
making Maori culture visible.
On the final day of the festival, Saturday, 10
November, 8:30 am–4:30 pm, Legacy Foundation will present
“Preserving Pacific Media,” a symposium on media preservation and
the community. The program will
bring together filmmakers, scholars, cultural practitioners, archivists,
collectors, educators, policy-makers, media technicians, and community members
to share knowledge and experiences and highlight the critical state of media
preservation in the Pacific. The schedule is:
9 am–10:15 am. Panel on Collections.
The role of collections, archives, museums, and issues
of access. Moderator, Alexander Mawyer
(University of Chicago). Desoto Brown
(Bishop Museum), Karen Peacock (UH
Pacific Collection), Lowell Angell
(Historian and Collector), and Barry Barclay (Maori Filmmaker)
10:30 am–12:15 pm. Panel: Storytellers.
The important role of storytelling and media in the
perpetuation of Native cultures and languages.
Melissa Nelson
(Cultural Conservancy), Larry Kimura
(University of Hawai`i, Hilo), Meleanna Meyer
(Hawaiian artist and film maker), and Merata Mita
(Maori Filmmaker)
1:00 pm–2:45 pm. Panel: Community.
The relationship between media and communities. It
will include community projects, documentary work about communities, and issues
of community intellectual property rights.
Victoria Keith
(teacher and independent filmmaker), Kate Sample
(MCC Media Specialist), Anna Naupa
(Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta), and Danielle Conway-Jones
(UH Law School)
3:00 pm–4:00 pm. Maori Filmmaker and Media Preservation Activist Barry
Barclay will deliver the keynote address “Mana Tuturu: Asserting ‘First Law’ When Collecting
and Archiving Indigenous Images.”
Barclay’s film Te Rua will close the symposium. Inquiries can be e-mailed
to legacyfound@aol.com.
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Viki (Sapeta Taito) defends her father
against
the British District Officer.
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CPIS Pacific literature and film specialist Vilsoni Hereniko, together with his wife
Jeannette Paulson Hereniko,
embarked on an extraordinary filming project this past summer. Fire in the
Womb, written and directed by
Hereniko, is a feature film about Viki, a young Rotuman girl. Inspired by her
father’s stories of an ancient woman warrior, she draws on her cultural
heritage to salvage her father’s reputation after he is falsely accused
of stealing from a rich neighbor.
The majority of the film’s remarkable cast are
Rotumans living on Rotuma. Viki is played by Sapeta Taito; her inspiration, the warrior woman, is played by the
internationally acclaimed Maori actress Rena Owen.
The ninety-minute film was shot in 16 mm and PAL DVCAM, with actors speaking in
Rotuman and English. It is being edited and is expected to be released in 35 mm
format in January 2003. A gallery of film stills is online at
http://www.jphmovies.com/gallery.html
.
The Office for Women’s Research and the
Women’s Studies Program at UHM are fortunate to be able to offer, by
means of a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, residential
fellowships to support the work of scholars who wish to come to Hawai‘i
to pursue their work on gender and globalization in Asia and the Pacific. The
program focuses on eight general research themes: women and economic
transformation; migration, refugees, and diaspora movements and communities;
women’s health; militarism and global violence; domestic violence;
gender, race, and representation; global connections of indigenous peoples; and
reparation initiatives.
Work that spans diverse disciplines and addresses one
or more of the research themes will be particularly favored, as will work that
speaks to audiences both inside and outside the university. Participants must
have doctoral degrees. Fellows may request residencies for three to five
months. For application eligibility and requirements, contact Dr Teresa Arambula-Greenfield; fax: (808)
956-9616, e-mail: tag@hawaii.edu.
“Local and Global Relations in the Asia Pacific
Region” is the theme for the East-West Center International Graduate Student
Conference to be held in Honolulu, 21–24 February 2002. Graduate students
from any field related to the conference theme are encouraged to submit papers.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 November 2001. Keynote speaker for
the conference is Dr Saskia Sassen,
professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and author of Globalization
and Its Discontents. Papers on the
following topics are particularly encouraged: diasporas, indigenous movements,
the environment, tourism and development, regional security, gender and
nationalism, and the arts and identity politics. For more information see the
conference website at
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events-ce-detail.asp?conf_ID=272.
CPIS students Hau‘oli Busby and Micky Huihui,
and adviser Kealalokahi Losch (MA
1999), lecturer in Hawaiian and Pacific studies at Kapi‘olani Community
College, were Hawai‘i’s delegation to the sixth Simulated Pacific
Islands Conference of Leaders (SPICOL) in Fiji. The annual conference, which is
coordinated by students at the University of the South Pacific, is modeled on
the South Pacific Forum Heads of Government meeting. It involves students
taking on the roles of presidents or prime ministers, government ministers, senior
public servants, consultants, activists, journalists, and conference
organizers. This year’s conference, which took place the last week in
September, addressed the use and abuse of land in the Pacific.
Participants’ recommendations on land policy formed the
conference’s final communique. Previous years’ conferences
addressed population, security, tourism, and tuna fishing issues.
The purpose of the conference is to move learning and
teaching out of the classroom environment and into a world that recreates real
life situations and problems. It is also used to develop leadership skills and
to foster strong interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange and
understanding.
Busby and Huihui are participants in the Pacific
Islands studies course “Oceania on the Move.” The course, which is
part of the Ford Foundation–funded Moving Cultures project in the UH
School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, links UHM students through
web-based technologies with students at the University of the South Pacific and
the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, for four weeks of
interactive learning. The trip enabled Busby and Huihui to visit their partner
classroom in Fiji.
Stephen F Johnston,
formerly of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney,
gave a talk on 31 August on “The Work and Role of APACE: A
Development-Focused NGO Working in Solomon Islands.” APACE is a
non-government organization focusing on micro-hydro and food security community
development programs in developing countries north of Australia.
On 26 September, CPIS cosponsored
“Dreamtime and Native Title: Connecting Australian Aboriginal Cultural
Origins and Modern Land Struggles,” a public talk by Marie Munya Andrews and Gary “Mick” Martin, from Southern Cross University
(SCU) in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. ‘Ahahui ‘o
Hawai‘i, the Native Hawaiian Law Student Organization, hosted Andrews and
Martin and two of their students, who were in Hawai‘i doing comparative research
on Indigenous Australian and Hawaiian issues. Andrews and Martin teach courses
at SCU on human rights, indigenous peoples, criminal justice, and land rights.
Geographer and CPIS affiliate faculty member Murray Chapman retired in June. Chapman began
research on people’s movement in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands as a
graduate student in the 1960s and maintained a career-long interest and
involvement in population movement and epistemologies of movement, as well as
an interest in Melanesia, especially Solomon Islands. In the 1990s he returned
to Solomon Islands for the third time to do basic and applied research with the
Guadalcanal communities with which he did his dissertation research. Chapman
was a strong advocate for, and mentor to, students from Asia, the Pacific, and
the United States, and a supporter of, and adviser to, the Solomon Islands
College of Higher Education (SICHE). When he retired he was the Chair of the
Department of Geography, having previously headed the Population Studies
Program. His ready laugh and generosity of spirit will be missed in official
capacities on campus, but we look forward to his participation in the
intellectual life of the university, and Pacific studies in particular, for a
long time to come.
Congratulations to David Hanlon, professor of history, who was honored in September
with a Board of Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. In his
specialty, Pacific history, Hanlon was cited for his skill in conveying to
students the depth, complexity, and range of island cultures and the richness
of historical situations that make the Pacific a truly exciting theater of
study. Valued as teacher, colleague, mentor, and adviser to many across the
Pacific, Hanlon is known not only for his teaching and his published work,
which includes Upon a Stone Altar and
Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory,
1944–1982, but for his
involvement with the Pacific History Association and his editorship of The
Contemporary Pacific and the center’s
Pacific Islands Monograph Series.
Nancy D Lewis,
professor of geography, took leave from the university and assumed the position
of Director of Studies at the East-West Center as of 1 August. Lewis will head
the research program at the center.
Geoffrey White
has also assumed a new position at the East-West Center. Formerly Dean of
Students, he is now a senior fellow in the Pacific Islands Development Program,
as well as professor of anthropology in the UH Department of Anthropology.
Professor Emeritus Barbara B Smith was recently honored for her eighteen years of service
as chair of the Study Group on the Musics of Oceania (International Council for
Traditional Music) and her many contributions to the field of Pacific music. As
part of the 15–16 September conference of the study group in Canberra,
the group launched a “surprise” publication, Traditionalism and
Modernity in the Music and Dance of Oceania: Essays in Honor of Barbara B Smith, Oceania Monographs 52, University of Sydney, 2001.
Jane Freeman Moulin,
professor of ethnomusicology, presented a paper at the same conference in
Canberra, “Words of Tomorrow: ‘Spectacle’ at the Festival of
Pacific Arts.” She received funding from the UH University Research
Council and the Ching Foundation. She was also a contributor to the volume in
honor of Smith, with a chapter titled “From Quinn’s Bar to the
Conservatory: Redefining the traditions of Tahitian Dance.” While they
were in Canberra, Smith and Moulin attended the official opening of the new building
for AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies).
David A Chappell,
associate professor of history, returned from sabbatical leave in New Caledonia
and will present his research at a CPIS noontime seminar on 18 October. He is
writing a chapter about Pacific Islander seamen on whalers in the nineteenth
century for a whaling museum catalogue and preparing talks for conferences in
Tahiti and New Caledonia next year.
Jon Van Dyke,
professor of law, was in Palau in late September arguing a case before the
Palau Supreme Court regarding a separation of powers issue.
The center is delighted to welcome five new students
to the MA program this semester.
Christina “Hau‘oli” Busby graduated from UH Manoa with a BA
in English. She brings to the program an interest in peaceful resistance and
nonviolent movements in the Pacific.
Jennifer Cullen
graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in
anthropology. As a Hawaiian who grew up in California, she has a strong
interest in reconnecting with, and preserving, Hawaiian culture.
Dale Hood
graduated from UH West O‘ahu with a BA in Humanities and a focus on
Pacific studies, after a number of years as a broadcast engineer in Honolulu, as
well as experience in the Marshall Islands. He is interested in teaching
history and Pacific Islands studies.
Lesley “Micky” Huihui graduated from UHM with a BA in Hawaiian Studies. She
seeks a deeper understanding of the peoples of Oceania, the issues being faced
in the region, and the relevance of these issues to Hawai‘i.
Portia Richmond
graduated with BAs from the University of New South Wales in Australia and the
University of Auckland, with specializations in English and anthropology. Her
experiences growing up in Fiji and a desire to pursue an interdisciplinary
approach to understanding and dealing with issues facing the region drew her to
the CPIS program.
As we welcome the new students we congratulate and
wish aloha to August 2001 graduating students Robert Baraka, Luafata Simanu-Klutz,
and Heather Stanton-Moretzsohn.
Baraka’s Plan B paper topic was the consequences for Papua New Guinea of
independence; he has returned to Papua New Guinea. Simanu-Klutz’s thesis
is “Aumua Mata‘itusi Simanu: The Lifestory of a Samoan Educator and
Orator in Diaspora”; she has entered the PhD program in Pacific history
at UH Manoa. Stanton-Moretzsohn’s plan B paper is “The Use and
Treatment of Micronesian Labor under the Japanese Empire, 1922–1945”;
she has joined her father in the practice of immigration law.
Congratulations to new parents Heather Stanton-Moretzsohn (MA 2001) and Fabio Moretzsohn, and Michelle Nelson Tupou (MA 2000) and Misa Tupou. Their new offspring are Olivia
Elizabeth Moretzsohn, born 18
July, and Timote Edward Kaleo Misa Kauka‘ohu Tupou, born 25 July. All are doing very well!
Congratulations, also, to Rosemary Casey, who graduated in August 2001 with
a PhD from the College of Education. Her thesis is “Voyaging Beyond Home
Waters: The Experiences of Pacific Island Students at an American
University.” Casey found that predictors of school success among Pacific
Islanders include a strong identification with the home culture, opportunities
to use their home language in Hawai‘i, and the support of family at home
and locally. She is now the College Coordinator for the Health Careers
Opportunity Program, a program at UHM designed to help first-generation
Hawaiians and other local and Pacific students in Hawai‘i to enter and
graduate from college.
Christy Harrington
(MA 1994; PhD, University of Otago, 1999) is lecturing in women’s studies
at the University of California, Berkeley. Her MA and PhD research concerned
women’s experiences as garment workers in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand.
She received an American Association of University Women Postdoctoral
Fellowship for the period July 2001–June 2002 to continue her Fiji
research on the impact of the May 2000 coup on women garment workers. She was
in Fiji during July and August and will return in January.
A number of students from the Pacific have recently
been awarded East-West Center scholarships or are new affiliates of the center.
Students who began their studies at UH Manoa this semester include: Williams Ganileo from Vanuatu (MA program in
geography); Winston Halapua from
Tonga (MA program in urban and regional planning); Hapakuke Pierre Leleivai from New Caledonia (preparation
for Pacific Islands studies); Tina Tauasosi
from Samoa (PhD program in sociology); Jacqueline Evans from Cook Islands (MA program in marine biology);
Ellan Szetu from Solomon Islands
(College of Arts and Sciences); and Portia Richmond
from Fiji (MA program in Pacific Islands studies).
New students studying as undergraduates at UH Hilo
are: Williams Baega from Solomon
Islands, Emmanuel-Carlos Kaetavara
from Papua New Guinea, and Lisa Va‘ai
from Samoa.
The students on awards are beneficiaries of three EWC
scholarship programs: Asian Development Bank Scholarship Program; the
South Pacific Islands Scholarship Program; and the East-West Center Graduate
Degree Program. For information on EWC scholarships see the EWC website at
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/edu-sp.asp.
The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific, volume 13:2, fall 2001, is Native Pacific
Cultural Studies on the Edge, a
special issue guest edited by Vicente Diaz
and J Kehaulani Kauanui. This
important work explores notions of Pacific indigeneity “in the face of
diaspora and globalization, but without relinquishing the groundedness of
indigenous identity, politics, theory, method, and aesthetics.”
The issue includes:
Native Pacific Cultural
Studies on the Edge - Vicente M Diaz and J Kehaulani Kauanui
Lo(o)sing the Edge - Teresia K
Teaiwa
“What Kine Hawaiian Are You?” A Mo‘olelo about Nationhood, Race, History, and the Contemporary
Sovereignty Movement in Hawai‘i - Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio
Disappearing Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies
in Hawai‘i and the Pacific
-
Geoffrey M White and Ty Kawika Tengan
On the Edge? Deserts, Oceans, Islands - Margaret Jolly
Indigenous Articulations - James
Clifford
Cultural Rupture and Indigeneity: The Challenge of
(Re)visioning “Place” in the Pacific - David
Welchman Gegeo
Individual copies are $25 ($15 in the Pacific Islands
region, excluding Hawai‘i, Australia, and New Zealand). New subscribers
to The Contemporary Pacific
beginning with volume 14 (2002) receive this special issue free, as a bonus.
For details on ordering information see the journal website at
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp.
UH Press Publications
In The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands
Quilting, by Lynnsay Rongokea, photographs by John Daley,
Cook Islands women talk about the tivaevae (patchwork quilts) - how
they are sewn, the ideas that go into each design, and the future of tivaevae. 120 pages, 75 color illustrations. ISBN
0-8248-2502-0, cloth, $29.95.
Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations
and Contestations in and around the Pacific, edited by Cynthia Franklin,
Ruth Hsu, and Suzanne Kosanke, is a collection of essays,
poems, and interviews that explores the interrelations among Pacific, Asian,
and continental United States identities and literatures. Literary Studies East
and West 17. 304 pages. ISBN 0-8248-2365-6, paper, $28.00. Distributed for the
College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawai‘i,
and the East-West Center.
An Anthropologist in Papua: The Photography of F E
Williams, 1922–39, by Michael Young and Julia Clark, is a pictorial celebration of the work of
ethnographer F E Williams, who
spent the entirety of his working career as Government Anthropologist in the
Australian Territory of Papua. Some 235 images have been selected. 320 pages.
ISBN 0-8248-2528-4, cloth, $75.00.
The True Story of Kaluaikoolau: As Told by His
Wife, Piilani, translated by Frances
N Frazier, is one of
Kaua‘i’s great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young
son had contracted leprosy, Koolau
fled with his family deep into Kalalau Valley. The book contains the original
published Hawaiian text, as well as the translation. Distributed for the
Kaua‘i Historical Society. 160 pages. ISBN 0-9607542-9-6, cloth, $29.00;
ISBN 0-9703293-0-X, paper, $14.95.
Due out in November is Paradise Reforged: A History
of the New Zealanders from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, by James Belich.
Paradise Reforged takes up where
Belich’s previous book Making Peoples left off. It tells a story of the New Zealanders from
the 1880s to the end of the twentieth century, including the modern Maori
resurgence and the new Pakeha
consciousness. 500 pages. ISBN 0-8248-2542-X, cloth, $40.00. (For sale only in
the United States and Canada.)
Also due out in November is Stories from the
Marshall Islands: Bebwenato Jan Aelon Kein, a collection of ninety folktales and stories of historical events
brought together by Jack A Tobin.
The stories were translated into English during the third quarter of the
twentieth century. Many are presented in the original language and are
amplified by extensive commentary. A PALI Language Text. 416 pages. ISBN
0-8248-2545-4, cloth, $55.00; ISBN 0-8248-2019-3, paper, $19.95.
UH Press books can be ordered through the Orders
Department, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu,
HI 96822-1888. Website:
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.
Other Publications
New books from the Institute of Pacific Studies,
University of the South Pacific, include:
Ana Otabwanin Kiritimati: The Environment of
Christmas Island, by Roger Perry and Martin Garnett; Katino Teeb‘aki
and Bwere Eritaia, translators. In
Kiribati and English. 40 pages, illustrated, US$10.00.
Beyond Ceremony: An Anthology of Fiji Drama, edited by Ian Gaskell,
is a collection of works by Fiji’s foremost playwrights and up-and-coming
writers. ISBN 982-02-0313-9, 510 pages, US$35.00.
Bula Vakavanua, by Ratu Semi Seruvakula,
Assistant Minister for Education, is about the ceremonies, culture, and customs
of Fiji. ISBN 982-02-0151-9, 169 pages, US$16.00.
Futuna: Mo Ona Puleaga Sau, Aux Deux Royaumes, the
Two Kingdons, by Petelo Leleivai and nine others, edited by
Elise Huffer and Leleivai, covers history, culture, and
life in Futuna. In English and French, ISBN 982-02-0316-3. 178 pages, US$21.00.
Havilivilianga Manatu: Reflections, by Ligi Sisikefu
and ten others, is a collection of short stories and poems from members of the
Niue Writers Group. 68 pages, US$16.00.
Pulega i Samoa, Governance in Samoa, by Asofou So‘o
and twelve others, edited by Elise Huffer
and So‘o, covers topics such
as introduced governance programs and local institutions and practices. ISBN
982-02-0156-X, 236 pages, US$31.00.
Veiled Honour, by Satya Colpani, is a novel
about women forced into loveless marriages and the conflict between family and
duty on one hand, and freedom and love on the other. ISBN 982-02-0157-8, 210
pages, US$21.00.
Books from IPS are available by writing to Institute
of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, PO Box 1168, Suva, Fiji.
Tel: 679-313900, x2018; fax: 679-301594 or 301305; e-mail: ips@usp.ac.fj.
Prices include sea mail postage. Contact IPS for airmail rates and names and
addresses of book dealers in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United
States that distribute IPS books.
The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol: Literature and
Power in Tahiti, by Robert Nicole, explores the relationships
between history, power, knowledge, and certain cultural productions such as
literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts. The book reveals the
complicit relationship in French Polynesia between imperialism and colonial
text as well as the complex and diverse responses of Maohi people to
romanticized western discourses. 230 pages. SUNY Series on the Sublime, State
University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-4740-5, paper, $19.95; ISBN
0-7914-4739-1, cloth, $59.50.
Whisper of the Mother: From Menarche to Menopause
among Women in Pohnpei, by Maureen H Fitzgerald, examines how women’s
experiences associated with their reproductive lives are situated in a society
that is rapidly being exposed to alternative models and ideas. It also
highlights community concerns about women’s lives, their health, and the
health of the community. 176 pages. Bergin & Garvey, Greenwood Publishing
Group; ISBN 0-89789-818-4, $54.00.
One Thousand and One Papua New Guinean Nights:
Folktales from Wantok Newspaper,
translated and edited by Thomas H Slone,
is a two-volume collection of 1047 folktales published between 1972 and 1997 in
Papua New Guinea’s Wantok
newspaper. The folktales have been extensively indexed by author, village,
original language (or culture group), province, flora and fauna, and folklore
motif. For information see the
website at
http://THSlone.tripod.com/masalaipress.html.
Journals
The Hawaiian Journal of History, volume 34, 2000, has articles on Hawaiian language
policy and the courts, the political economy of banning the hula, Hawai‘i
in 1819, American Congregationalists and the Hawaiian monarchs, Freemasonry in
Hawai‘i, and the early history of Palama Settlement, among others.
$12.00. For information, contact the Hawaiian Historical Society by telephone
at (808) 537-6271.
Looking to the Future: Involving Young People in
Development, is a special issue of Development
Bulletin, 56, October 2001.
Contributors consider the economic, social, and political benefits of involving
young people in the development process. In particular, the articles cover
issues of employment, education, legislation, and access to information. For
information on subscribing see the website at
http://devnet.anu.edu.au.
Volume 17 of People and Culture in Oceania, the journal for the Japanese Society for Oceanic
Studies, has articles on tuatua
shellfish in New Zealand archaeological sites; prehistoric Polynesian
migration; stringband laments from Madang, Papua New Guinea; Fijian
Christianity; and the contemporary meeting house system in Tabiteuea South,
Kiribati. The website is
http://www.humeco.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~oceania/.
Videos
An Evergreen Island, 46 minutes, 1996, VHS (PAL and NTSC), by filmmakers
Fabio Cavidini and Mandy King, is about the resourcefulness of
Bougainville Islanders. The video tells a story of communities working together
to survive and to preserve their environment. Landowners closed the
world’s largest copper mine in 1989 and the Papua New Guinea government
responded with a nine-year blockade. The distributor is Video Education
Australasia, 111A Mitchell St, Bendigo, Victoria 3550, Australia; e-mail:
vea@vea.com.au.
In the Name of Growth, by filmmakers ‘Atu Emberson-Bain and Michael Preston,
focuses on the operations of the Levuka, Fiji, tuna cannery, PAFCO, and the
experiences of its women workers and their communities. It traces the key
historical role of Levuka as Fiji’s colonial capital, and highlights the
clash between World Bank-style, growth-driven development and the traditional
values of a needs-based subsistence economy. 53 minutes. For more details,
contact Emberson-Bain at fonumelino@is.com.fj.
Samoana: The Islands They Named Samoa recounts 3,000 years of settlement in the islands. 56
minutes. Produced by Juniper Films; e-mail: junfilms@oze-mail.com.au. Available
in Samoan or English.
Faces of the Spirits: The Sulka People of Papua New
Guinea, 27 minutes, 2000, VHS NTSC,
is produced and directed by Caroline Yacoe.
The film is about traditional and modern ceremonies in the Sulka area of New
Britain Island, with commentary by local leaders that helps viewers understand
how these rituals express Sulka culture. Distributed by Pacific Pathways, 223
Paiko Drive, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96821; e-mail: cyacoepp@aol.com. $95.00.
A new film, Kava: The Drink of the Gods, by Thorolf Lipp,
produced by the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South
Pacific, is a shortened (58 minutes) version of a longer film by the same name
and filmmaker. The film is a documentary that examines the cultural and
economic significance of kava in Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, and Germany. The new version
is available, in English or in German, from Arcadia Film. DM 50 for individuals
and DM 150 for institutions. The website is
http://www.arcadia-film.de;
e-mail:
lipp@arcadia-film.de.
CD-ROM
Art of the Pacific Islands is an interactive, searchable collection of more than
100 artworks from the Pacific. Created in Honolulu by the Pacific Center for
the Arts and Humanities at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
in collaboration with the Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures (CPAC), the
CD includes carving from Melanesia, story boards from Micronesia, and tapa and feather cloaks from Polynesia. It also includes
contemporary video segments and music, as well as a short instructional video
to help teachers facilitate discussions about art. $34.00. For minimum system
requirements and ordering information, contact PREL at askprel@prel.org.
Intellectual Property Conference at Cambridge
“Innovation, Creation, and New Economic Forms: Approaches
to Intellectual and Cultural Property,” 13–15 December 2001, will
be held in Cambridge, England. Workshop themes are staking claims to rights,
inheritance of rights, ownership and commodities, intellectual creativity, loss
and compensation, and collecting and storing knowledge. For information, see
the conference website at
http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/conference.htm.
Islands of the World Conference in Canada
The 2002 conference of the International Small Islands
Studies Association will be held 26–30 June 2002 at the University of
Prince Edward Island. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January
2001. The website for the conference is
http://www.upei.ca/islandstudies/islandsvii/.
Conferences Announced in Previous Newsletters
Workshop in Pacific History, to be held at Canterbury University, Christchurch,
New Zealand, 1–2 December 2001. For information, contact Peter Hempenstall by e-mail at
p.hempenstall@hist.Canterbury.ac.nz.
The CORAIL Symposium on Culture and Nature in the
Pacific will be held 3–5
December 200l in New Caledonia. For information, contact Hamid Mokaddem by e-mail at Hmoka@lagoon.nc.
The Ninth International Conference on Austronesian
Linguistics (9ICAL) will be held in
Canberra, at the Australian National University, 8–11 January 2002. The
website at http://rspas.anu.edu.au/linguistics/ANConfs/
has information on
registration fees and lodging.
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) meeting, 20–23 February 2002, at the
University of Auckland. See the ASAO homepage at
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki.html
for links to the schedule
and to site information.
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) conference “Recovering the Past: Resources,
Representations, and Ethics of Research in Oceania,” 4–6 July 2002
in Vienna. See the ESfO website at
http://cc.joensuu.fi/esfo/index.html.
UH Manoa English Department Announces Positions
The UHM English Department is advertising three
full-time, tenure-track positions:
For the Citizens’ Chair in English Studies, the
department seeks outstanding applicants who are either at the full professor
level and specialize in Asian/Pacific literature in English, Asian American
literature, postcolonial literature and theory, or cultural studies, or are
creative writers or specialists in literary theory with an interest in at least
one of these fields. Inquiries should be addressed to David Baker at Department of English,
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu,
Hawai‘i 96822. Tel: (808) 956-9405. The committee began reviewing
applications in March 2001 and will continue until the position is filled.
For a position as an assistant professor of Hawaiian
Literature in the Departments of English and Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literatures, the department seeks someone to teach Hawaiian
literature in Hawaiian and English, as well as composition, language, and other
literature courses. To be considered, an applicant must have a PhD in English
or a relevant field and a high proficiency in written and spoken Hawaiian.
Inquiries may be directed to Christina Bacchilega,
Chair of the Department of English, at the address above. Applications will be
reviewed beginning 28 February 2002.
For a position as an assistant professor of English in
creative writing (prose fiction and creative nonfiction) minimum qualifications
include a PhD with creative writing emphasis and significant publications; or
an MA in English or an MFA in creative writing with at least one book; or
equivalent. Inquiries may be directed to Christina Bacchilega, Chair of the Department of English, at the
address above. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2001.
Micronesian Seminar Adds Photos to Website
Micronesian Seminar’s newest addition to its website
is a series of mini-albums compiled from Micronesian Seminar photos. The first
album is “The Changing Church.” It contains photos illustrating the
changes that have taken place over the past fifty years in the Roman Catholic
Church in Pohnpei. The website for the photos is
http://www.micsem.org/ie/publications/histwork/albums/index.htm.
MA in Applied Anthropology and Development
The Anthropology Graduate Program at Australian
National University has launched a Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory
Development. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the principal
ways in which critical social inquiry and method, particularly as developed in
anthropology, can be applied to design, development, monitoring, and evaluation
processes that involve community dynamics and participation.
The most up-to-date details and information regarding
course content, structure, and application instructions for the program in
2002, including detailed unit outlines, can be found on-line at
http://anthropology.anu.edu.au/MAAPD.
Pacific News from Manoa
is published quarterly by
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies
School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Phone: (808) 956-7700
Fax: (808) 956-7053
E-mail: cpis@hawaii.edu
Website: www.hawaii.edu/cpis/
Robert C Kiste, Director
Letitia Hickson, Editor
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