2007 19(1) & 19(2)
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| Spring 19(1) Articles Nemesis, Speaking, and Tauhi Vaha‘a: Interdisciplinarity and the Truth of “Mental Illness” in Vava‘u, Tonga Michael Poltorak Fashion as Fetish: The Agency of Modern Clothing and Traditional Body Decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea Mark S Mosko The Fiji Times and the Good Citizen: Constructing Modernity and Nationhood in Fiji John Connell Pacific Islands Trade, Labor, and Security in an Era of Globalization Stewart Firth Dialogue Diasporic Deracination and “Off-Island” Hawaiians J Kēhaulani Kauanui Survivor Vanuatu: Myths of Matriarchy Revisited Lamont Lindstrom Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 John Haglelgam, Kelly G Marsh, Samuel F McPhetres, Donald R Shuster Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 Frédéric Angleviel, Lorenz Gonschor, Jon Tikivanotau M Jonassen, Kelihiano Kalolo, Tracie Ku‘uipo Cummings Losch, Margaret Mutu, Tauaasa Taafaki, Unasa L F Va‘a, Heather Young Leslie Book and Media Reviews Five Takes on Climate and Cultural Change in Tuvalu The Disappearing of Tuvalu: Trouble in Paradise; Paradise Drowned: Tuvalu, The Disappearing Nation; Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling; Before the Flood; and Time and Tide [videos] Feature Review by Anne Chambers and Keith S Chambers The Land Has Eyes: Pear ta ma ‘on maf [feature film] Reviewed by Selina Tusitala Marsh Pacific Regional Order, by Dave Peebles; Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance, edited by Satish Chand Reviewed by Roderic Alley Bougainville: Before the Conflict, edited by Anthony J Regan and Helga M Griffin Reviewed by Donald Denoon Ce souffle venu des ancêtres . . . L’œuvre politique de Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936–1989), by Hamid Mokaddem Reviewed by Eric Waddell The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal, edited by Chris Ballard, Paula Brown, R Michael Bourke, and Tracey Harwood Reviewed by William C Clarke Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island, by Steven Roger Fischer Reviewed by Paul Rainbird “First Contacts” in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722–1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity, by Serge Tcherkezoff Reviewed by Paul Shankman Island of Angels: The Growth of the Church on Kosrae / Kapkapak lun Church fin acn Kosrae, 1852–2002, by Elden M Buck Reviewed by James Peoples Decolonizing the Mind: The Impact of the University on Culture and Identity in Papua New Guinea, 1971–1974, by Ulli Beier Reviewed by Steven Edmund Winduo Vision and Reality in Pacific Religion: Essays in Honour of Niel Gunson, edited by Phyllis Herda, Michael Reilly, and David Hilliard Reviewed by Robert Tonkinson Savannah Flames: Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Languages and Culture, Volume 5, edited by Steven Edmund Winduo Reviewed by Reina Whaitiri Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan, edited by Pamela J Stewart and Andrew Strathern Reviewed by Ruth Finnegan Hiapo: Past and Present in Niuean Barkcloth, by John Pule and Nicholas Thomas Reviewed by Lissant Bolton Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West, edited by Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole, and Bronwen Douglas Reviewed by April K Henderson Life in the Pacific of the 1700s: The Cook/Forster Collection of the George August University of Göttingen [exhibit] Reviewed by Ivy Hali‘imaile Andrade, Maile T Drake, and Karen K Kosasa Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art, de Young Museum [exhibit] Reviewed by Margaret Mackenzie Featured Artist: Shigeyuki Kihara Show no evil (2002), by Shigeyuki Kihara Shigeyuki Kihara is a visual and performance artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. The recipient in 2003 of Creative New Zealand Art Council’s Emerging Pacific Island Artist Award, her cutting-edge work challenges cultural stereotypes and dominant norms of sexuality and gender. Crossing borders is integral to Kihara’s life. She grew up with a Japanese father and Samoan mother, and in adolescence began occupying the Samoan space (vā) of a Fa‘afafine—a liminal gender category best translated as a male who identifies as a woman. | Fall 19(2) Articles A Fishy Romance: Chiefly Power and the Geopolitics of Desire Heather E Young Leslie The Trouble with ramsi: Reexamining the Roots of Conflict in Solomon Islands Shahar Hameiri Uripiv Oral Tradition: The Last Leseserrkab on Uripiv Told by Elder Mark of Emil Potun Dialogue Making a Case for Tongan as an Endangered Language Yuko Otsuka Viewing Diasporas From the Pacific: What Pacific Ethnographies Offer Pacific Diaspora Studies Ilana Gershon Uripiv Oral Tradition: The Journey of the Dead Told by Chief Sukon of Emil Potnambe Resources Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands Margaret Jolly Uripiv Oral Tradition: The Two Children Left Behind Told by Frank Kenneth of Emil Lowi Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2005–2006 Karin von Strokirch Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2006 David Chappell, Alumita L Durutalo, Anita Jowitt, Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka Uripiv Oral Tradition: The Lebon Brothers Told by John Regenvanu of Emil Bweterial and Emil Periv Book and Media Reviews The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Culture Change, edited by Joel Robbins and Holly Wardlow Reviewed by Bruce Knauft Pacific Futures, edited by Michael Powles Reviewed by Anthony van Fossen Political Parties in the Pacific Islands, edited by Roland Rich with Luke Hambly and Michael G Morgan Reviewed by Stephen Levine Globalization and the Re-Shaping of Christianity in the Pacific Islands, edited by Manfred Ernst Reviewed by John Barker Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea, by Paige West Reviewed by Alex Golub Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea, edited by Lawrence Kalinoe and James Leach Reviewed by Malia Talakai Social Discord and Bodily Disorder: Healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea, by Verna Keck Reviewed by Judith C Barker Les Javanais du Caillou, Des affres de l’exil aux aléas de l’intégration: Sociologie historique de la communauté indonésienne de Nouvelle Calédonie / The Javanese of the Rock: From the Hazards of Exile to the Hazards of Integration, by Jean Luc Maurer, in collaboration with Marcel Magi and with a contribution by Marie-Jo Siban Reviewed by Jean-Louis Rallu Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific, edited by Toon van Meijl and Jelle Miedema Reviewed by Eric Silverman The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania, by Paul D’Arcy Reviewed by John Edward Terrell Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective, edited by Jan Tent and Paul Geraghty Reviewed by Uri Tadmor American Pacificism: Oceania in the US Imagination, by Paul Lyons Reviewed by Elizabeth DeLoughrey No Turning Back: A Memoir, by E T W Fulton, edited by Elizabeth Fulton Thurston Reviewed by Rob Hilliard One and a Half Pacific Islands/Teuana ao Teiterana n aba n Te Betebeke: Stories the Banaban People Tell of Themselves/I-Banaba Aika a Karakin oin Rongorongola, edited by Jennifer Shennan and Makin Corrie Tekenimatang Reviewed by Mary E Lawson Burke The Songmaker’s Chair, a play by Albert Wendt Reviewed by Robert Sullivan Samoan Wedding and No. 2 [feature films] Reviewed by Marata Tamaira Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia, 1760–1860 [exhibition] Reviewed by Patricia Te Arapo Wallace Featured Artist: Ralph Regenvanu The LeBron brothers (1995), by Ralph Regenvanu Ralph Regenvanu’s first public art was unveiled at the time of Vanuatu’s independence in 1980, when he painted the country’s new coat of arms on the wall of Central Primary School, in the capital city of Port Vila. He painted his most famous piece, Las kakae (The Final Feast), when he was taking formal art classes in grade twelve in Australia. Among several inspirations for his art is the storyboard style popular in neighboring Papua New Guinea. From this style he has created a number of drawings, including those in this volume, that highlight custom stories from his family’s home island of Uripiv, off the northeast coast of Malakula. |