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Spring 17(1) Articles Precarious Positions: Native Hawaiians and US Federal Recognition He Lei Ho‘oheno no nā Kau a Kau: Language, Performance, and Form in Hawaiian Poetry Tauhi vā: Nurturing Tongan Sociospatial Ties in Maui and Beyond Dialogue Governance, Corruption, and Ethics in the South Pacific A Conversation with Mililani Trask Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004 Book and Media Reviews The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas, by Anne Salmond Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging, by Ben Finney No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i during World II, by Franklin Odo Kahana: How the Land Was Lost, by Robert H Stauffer Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men’s House, by Gilbert Herdt Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier, by Danilyn Rutherford Under the Gun: The Small Arms Challenge in the Pacific, by David Capie Akono‘anga Maori: Cook Islands Culture, edited by Ron Crocombe and Marjorie Tua‘inekore Crocombe Pacific Island Tourism, edited by David Harrison Marshall Islands Legends and Stories, collected and edited by Daniel A Kelin II Samoan Art & Artists: O Measina a Samoa, by Sean Mallon Conversations: Occasional Writing from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies 2:1, June 2001, edited by Brij Lal Kwamra: A Season of Harvest, by Russell Soaba. Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea, by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern Panpipes Across the Ocean: A Production of Popular Tunes from the South Pacific Islands [compact disc] Kuo Hina ‘E Hiapo: The Mulberry is White and Ready to Harvest [video] The Songmaker’s Chair, by Albert Wendt [play] Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific [art exhibit] Featured Artist: Meleanna Meyer Meleanna Aluli Meyer was born and raised at Mōkapu, Kailua, on the windward side of the island of O‘ahu. A Native Hawaiian, Meyer is a freelance visual artist and arts educator who works in an outreach capacity in various community settings throughout the islands. As a filmmaker, she has three documentaries to her credit. In 1978 she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in design and photography from Stanford University, winning the prestigious Borelli Arts prize while there. Meyer was mentored by renowned painter/printmaker Nathan Oliveira and also studied in Italy. She received her master’s in educational foundations from the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. Being a fellow of the East-West Center, Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, and Salzburg Institute afforded Meyer opportunities to interface in national and international arenas regarding Hawaiian issues. The recipient of numerous awards, she has exhibited her work and films throughout Hawai‘i; on the continent in New York, Tennessee, California, Illinois, and Washington DC; and abroad in Japan, Germany, France, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia. |
Fall 17(2) Articles Australian Foreign Policy and the RAMSI Intervention in Solomon Islands Beyond Governance in Sāmoa: Understanding Samoan Political Thought Dialogue 1 Reflections on Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific, edited by David Chappell The Nuclear Issue in the South Pacific: Labor Parties, Trade Union Movements, and Pacific Island Churches in International Relations A Comment on “The Nuclear Issue in the South Pacific” The Nuclear Age in the Pacific Islands Response to Regnault French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific, or When France Makes Light of Its Duty to Remember Reply Dialogue 2 Of Blood and Of the Heart: An Interview with Georgia Ka‘apuni McMillen “Hawaiian at Heart” and Other Fictions Political Peviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2004 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2004 Book and Media Reviews Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society, by Joel Robbins Maori Times, Maori Places: Prophetic Histories, by Karen Sinclair Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique, edited by Holger Jebens Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern Bittersweet: The Indo-Fijian Experience, edited by Brij V Lal Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C Kiste, edited by Brij V Lal New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History, by Clive Moore Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands, by I C Campbell The Archaeology of Micronesia, by Paul Rainbird Wartime Japanese Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Akitoshi Shimizu and Jan van Bremen Namoluk Beyond the Reef: The Transformation of a Micronesian Community, by Mac Marshall Under Heaven’s Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk, by Ward H Goodenough Conceiving Cultures: Reproducing People and Places on Nuakata, Papua New Guinea, by Shelley Mallett Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After, by Bruce M Knauft Identity and Development: Tongan Culture, Agriculture, and the Perenniality of the Gift, by Paul van der Grijp Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the 21st Century, by Richard Feinberg Re-Thinking Vanuatu Education Together, edited by Kabini Sanga, John Niroa, Kalmele Matai, and Linda Crowl Pacific Art: Persistence, Change and Meaning, edited by Anita Herle, Nick Stanley, Karen Stevenson, and Robert L Welsch The Time at Darwin’s Reef: Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History, by Ivan Brady Kau Lā‘au and Ma‘ama‘a: Traditional Hawaiian Ulua Fishing (DVD) Oltobed a Malt (Nurture, regenerate, celebrate). The Ninth Festival of Pacific Arts in Koror, Palau, 22–31 July 2004 Featured Artist: Ric R Castro Ric R Castro is a native Chamorro, raised on the family beach in the north of the island of Guam. Currently assistant professor of art at the University of Guam, he is primarily known for his paintings but also does printmaking and stone carving. Castro studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (associate degree in specialized technology) where he won Best in Show his final year; the University of Pennsylvania (bachelor of fine arts); and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (four-year certificate and master of fine arts), where he received a Ware Travel Award to experience art in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The recipient of other numerous awards, he has exhibited his paintings and prints in the continental United States as well as in Japan, Tahiti, and the Philippines. |
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