Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific

Name: Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific
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ISBN: 9780742500440

ISBN-10: 0742500446

ISBN-13: 9780742500440

Edition: 2000

Authors: David L. Hanlon, Geoffrey M. White

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As new nations emerge in the Pacific Islands region, political change is everywhere. This volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that aim to challenge simplistic paradigms of area study.

Book details

List price: $119.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/8/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Map of the Pacific Islands



Introduction




Re-Imagining the Pacific



Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the "South Pacific"




Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within




Bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans




The Ocean in Us




The Politics and Poetics of History



History "in" the Pacific




Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam




"In Order to Win Their Friendship": Renegotiating First Contact




Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Historiography or Problematic Paradigm?




Cultural Politics



Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific




Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle




Reply to Trask




Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholarship




Specters of Inauthenticity




The Sin at Awarua




Cultural Media(tions)



In Whose Face? An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff




Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's




Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu




Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web



Credits


Index


About the Editors and Contributors