We Are the Ocean Selected Works

Name: We Are the Ocean Selected Works
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ISBN: 9780824831738

ISBN-10: 082483173X

ISBN-13: 9780824831738

Edition: 2008

Authors: Epeli Hau'ofa

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We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world. Hau'ofa's essays crisscross Oceania, creating a navigator's star chart of discussion and debate. "Our Sea of Islands," "The Ocean in Us," "Pasts to Remember," and "Our Place Within," all of which are included in this collection, outline some of Hau'ofa's ideas for the emergence of a stronger and freer Oceania.…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946



Foreword



Preface



Rethinking


Anthropology and Pacific Islanders


The New South Pacific Society: Integration and Independence



Reflecting


Our Sea of Islands


The Ocean in Us


Pasts to Remember


Our Place Within: Foundations for a Creative Oceania



Creating


The Writer as an Outsider


The Glorious Pacific Way


The Tuktuks (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends)


Oilei and Babu (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends)


Epeli Hau'ofa Interviewed by Subramani



Revisiting


Thy Kingdom Come: The Democratisation of Aristocratic Tonga


His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV: An Appreciation


Blood in the Kava Bowl


Index