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Spring 20(1) Articles Moving Masculinities: Memories and Bodies Across Oceania Re-Membering Panalā‘au: Masculinities, Nation, and Empire in Hawai‘i and the Pacific “The Martial Islands”: Making Marshallese Masculinities Between American and Japanese Militarism Hui Nalu, Beachboys, and the Surfing Boarder-lands of Hawai‘i The Death of Koro Paka: “Traditional” Māori Patriarchy Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection Contending Masculinities and the Limits of Tolerance: Sexual Minorities in Fiji Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 Book and Media Reviews Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinea Subject, by Regis Tove Stella Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History, by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B, Volume 10: Fiji, edited by Brij V Lal The Nose Flute Breathes Again, with Calvin Rore [compact disk] The Canoe is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific [cd-rom] Traditional Medicine of the Marshall Islands: The Women, the Plants, the Treatments, by Irene J Taafaki, Maria Kabua Fowler, and Randolph R Thaman Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea, by Susanne Kuehling Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism Past, Present and Future, edited by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau and Ian Frazer Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought; An Anthology, edited by Richard Lansdown Island Affinities: Contemporary Art of Oceania [exhibition] Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea [exhibition] Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Eastern Pacific. Pasifika Styles. Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia. [exhibitions] Featured Artist: Carl Pao
Carl Franklin Ka‘ailā‘au Pao was born in Honolulu and resides in his hometown of Kailua on the island of O‘ahu. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1994 from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Master of Fine Arts in 1999 (with first-class honors) from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Aotearoa. Pao teaches art at his alma mater, Kamehameha Schools. He was also a co-owner/operator of Lodestar Collective gallery. Pao has exhibited his sculptures, paintings, prints, graphic designs, and ceramics throughout Hawai‘i; in the continental United States in New York, California, Washington, Kansas, and Massachusetts; and in the Pacific in Aotearoa, Sāmoa, and New Caledonia. Pao’s artwork can be found in both public and private collections throughout Hawai‘i as well as internationally.
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Fall 20(2) Articles Alternative Market Values? Interventions into Auctions in Aotearoa/New Zealand The Army Learns to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in Hawai‘i Dialogue The “Aloha Spirit” and the Cultural Politics of Sentiment as National Belonging Interdisciplinarity and Pacific Studies: Roots and Routes Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2007 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2007 Book and Media Reviews A New Island [dvd] Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940–1945, by Kim Munholland The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu, by Knut Mikjel Rio Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, by Holly Wardlow Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji, by Karen J Brison Grassroots, Ceux qui votent [dvd] Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War, edited by Barbara Rose Johnston Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography, edited by Doug Munro and Brij V Lal The Loneliness of Islands: Collected Poems 1976–2000, by Satendra Nandan Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia, edited by Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateatea-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific [exhibition, and catalog edited by Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier] Paul Jacoulet’s Vision of Micronesia [exhibition, and catalog by Donald Rubinstein] The Great Ocean Voyages: Vaka Moana and Island Life Today [exhibition] Guitar Style, Open Tunings, and Stringband Music in Papua New Guinea, by Denis Crowdy Featured Artist: Jewel Castro
Southern California–based artist Jewel Castro received her art training at San Diego State University (BA 1995) and the University of California, San Diego (MFA 1998), where her academic and artistic excellence were recognized in the award of a prestigious four-year San Diego Fellowship. She has presented her work in individual and group exhibitions in California, Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, and curated two exhibitions, “Turning Tides: Gender in Oceania Art” (University of California, San Diego, 2006) and “Island Affinities: Contemporary Art of Oceania” (California State University, Northridge, 2007). |
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