2008 20(1) & 20(2)
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| Spring 20(1) Articles Moving Masculinities: Memories and Bodies Across Oceania Margaret Jolly Re-Membering Panalā‘au: Masculinities, Nation, and Empire in Hawai‘i and the Pacific Ty P Kāwika Tengan “The Martial Islands”: Making Marshallese Masculinities Between American and Japanese Militarism Greg Dvorak Hui Nalu, Beachboys, and the Surfing Boarder-lands of Hawai‘i Isaiah Helekunihi Walker The Death of Koro Paka: “Traditional” Māori Patriarchy Brendan Hokowhitu Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection Kalissa Alexeyeff Contending Masculinities and the Limits of Tolerance: Sexual Minorities in Fiji Nicole George Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 John R Haglelgam, Kelly G Marsh, Samuel F McPhetres, Donald R Shuster Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 Frédéric Angleviel, Lorenz Gonschor, Jon Tikivanotau M Jonassen, Margaret Mutu, Bikenibeu Paeniu, Unasa L F Va‘a Book and Media Reviews Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinea Subject, by Regis Tove Stella Reviewed by Eugene Ogan Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History, by Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz Reviewed by James Leach British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B, Volume 10: Fiji, edited by Brij V Lal Reviewed by Robert Norton The Nose Flute Breathes Again, with Calvin Rore [compact disk] Reviewed by Brian Diettrich The Canoe is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific [cd-rom] Reviewed by Joseph Genz Traditional Medicine of the Marshall Islands: The Women, the Plants, the Treatments, by Irene J Taafaki, Maria Kabua Fowler, and Randolph R Thaman Reviewed by Nancy J Pollock Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea, by Susanne Kuehling Reviewed by Will Rollason Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism Past, Present and Future, edited by Jenny Bryant-Tokalau and Ian Frazer Reviewed by Nic Maclellan Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought; An Anthology, edited by Richard Lansdown Reviewed by Rainer F Buschmann Island Affinities: Contemporary Art of Oceania [exhibition] Reviewed by Adria L Imada Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea [exhibition] Reviewed by Haidy Geismar Power and Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Eastern Pacific. Pasifika Styles. Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia. [exhibitions] Reviewed by Rosanna Raymond Featured Artist: Carl Pao Kumu (2005), by 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. | Fall 20(2) Articles Alternative Market Values? Interventions into Auctions in Aotearoa/New Zealand Haidy Geismar The Army Learns to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in Hawai‘i Adria L Imada Dialogue The “Aloha Spirit” and the Cultural Politics of Sentiment as National Belonging Keiko Ohnuma Interdisciplinarity and Pacific Studies: Roots and Routes Graeme Whimp Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2007 Karin von Strokirch Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2007 David Chappell, Jon Fraenkel, Anita Jowitt, Brian Lenga Book and Media Reviews A New Island [dvd] Micronesians Abroad [dvd] Reviewed by Jim Hess Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940–1945, by Kim Munholland Nouvelle-Calédonie 1945–1968: La Confiance Trahie, by Jean Le Borgne, preface by Pierre Chaunu Reviewed by David Chappell The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu, by Knut Mikjel Rio Reviewed by Lamont Lindstrom Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, by Holly Wardlow Reviewed by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji, by Karen J Brison Reviewed by Matthew Tomlinson Grassroots, Ceux qui votent [dvd] Reviewed by Carlos Mondragón Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War, edited by Barbara Rose Johnston Reviewed by Robert C Kiste Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography, edited by Doug Munro and Brij V Lal Reviewed by Keith L Camacho The Loneliness of Islands: Collected Poems 1976–2000, by Satendra Nandan Reviewed by Seri I Luangphinith Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia, edited by Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateatea-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer Reviewed by Robert Sullivan New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific [exhibition, and catalog edited by Michael Gunn and Philippe Peltier] Reviewed by Deborah Waite Paul Jacoulet’s Vision of Micronesia [exhibition, and catalog by Donald Rubinstein] Reviewed by Judy Flores The Great Ocean Voyages: Vaka Moana and Island Life Today [exhibition] Reviewed by Manami Yasui Guitar Style, Open Tunings, and Stringband Music in Papua New Guinea, by Denis Crowdy Reviewed by Brian Diettrich Featured Artist: Jewel Castro Daughters in the Logan (2001), by 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). |