recent
publications
- The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (19:1, 2007) features
a wide range of topics. The articles focus on exploring the concept
of mental illness in Tonga; the agency of modern clothing and traditional
body decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea; constructing
national identity in Fiji; Pacific Islands trade, labor, and security;
diasporic deracination of “off-island” Hawaiians; and some observations
on the television series Survivor Vanuatu. The featured art in this
issue is by Samoan and Japanese visual and performance artist Shigeyuki
Kihara.
- Imagining the Other: The Representation of
the Papua New Guinean Subject, by Regis Tove Stella is the latest volume in the center’s
Pacific Islands Monograph Series (PIMS). Much has been written about
Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated
or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions
of Papua New Guineans. In Imagining the Other, Regis Tove Stella pays
special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and
colonial reports, laws, and legislation to reveal the complex and persistent
network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and
its people. Regis Tove Stella, from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville,
Papua New Guinea, is director of the Melanesian Institute of Arts and
Communications and a faculty member in the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea.
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