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Spring 25(1) Articles How Can Traditional Knowledge Best Be Regulated? Comparing a Proprietary Rights Approach with a Regulatory Toolbox Approach Looking Good: The Cultural Politics of the Island Dress for Young Women in Vanuatu “I Guess They Didn’t Want Us Asking Too Many Questions”: Reading American Empire in Guam Resources Pacific Research Protocols from the University of Otago Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 Book and Media Reviews Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands, by Keith L Camacho The Testimony Project: Papua, edited by Charles E Farhadian Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania, edited by Elfriede Hermann From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea, by Paige West Sun Come Up, directed by Jennifer Redfern [documentary] Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans, and Ecological Exchange, by Jennifer Newell Le paradis autour de Paul Gaugin, by Viviane Fayaud Second Skins: Painted Barkcloth from New Guinea and Central Africa [exhibition] Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania, by Alice Te Punga Somerville Ua Mau Ke Ea, Sovereignty Endures: An Overview of the Political Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands, by David Keanu Sai Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World, edited by Terry L Jones, Alice A Storey, Elizabeth A Matisoo-Smith, and José-Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga Featured Artists: The Jaki-ed Collective
Since 2006, the University of the South Pacific (USP)–Marshall Islands Campus and traditional leader Maria Kabua-Fowler, with the patronage of Iroij Michael Kabua and the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, have been collaborating on projects and activities to ensure the revival and contemporization of jaki-ed. Basing designs on their own creative vision, weavers now use traditional patterns as inspiration for modern expressions. The USP Jaki-Ed Program enables weavers to learn and share the cultural knowledge and customs associated with the fine mats while also building an exciting and sustainable creative industry. Although jaki-ed are no longer worn as clothing, the mats are now being collected as outstanding examples of cultural creativity.
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Fall 25(2) Articles After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society Mai te hau Roma ra te huru: The Illusion of “Autonomy” and the Ongoing Struggle for Decolonization in French Polynesia Dialogue An Interview with Oscar Temaru The Corporate Food Regime and Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands Resources Pacific Anglicanism: Online Bibliographical Resources Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2012 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2011 Book and Media Reviews Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power, by Eben Kirksey Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua, by Danilyn Rutherford Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, by Brian Diettrich, Jane Freeman Moulin, and Michael Webb Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i [documentary film] Etton an Raan Kein: Marshall Islands History, by Julianne M Walsh with Hilda Heine, Carmen Milne Bigler, and Mark Stege Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life, by Miriam Kahn Featured Artists: From the 2012 Festival of Pacific Arts
The 11th Festival of Pacific Arts, “Culture in Harmony with Nature,” was hosted by Solomon Islands in July 2012. For two weeks, the purpose-built festival village, exhibition spaces, performance venues, and four satellite villages were filled with song, dance, and celebration. Solomon Islanders from throughout the archipelago traveled to Honiara to participate and witness the breadth of arts from across the region. The hosts showed exceptional hospitality while also enjoying each moment of the festivities. |
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