2016 28(1) & 28(2)
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| Spring 28(1) Articles Local Norms and Truth Telling: Examining Experienced Incompatibilities within Truth Commissions of Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste Holly L Guthrey Multidimensional, Gender-Sensitive Poverty Measurement: Perspectives from Fiji Priya Chattier Musical Melanesianism: Imagining and Expressing Regional Identity and Solidarity in Popular Song and Video Michael Webb and Camellia Webb-Gannon Cartooning History: Lai’s Fiji and the Misadventures of a Scrawny Black Cat Sudesh Mishra Dialogue Berths and Anchorages: Pacific Cultural Studies from Oceania Lea Lani Kinikini Kauvaka Rethinking Pacific Studies Twenty Years On Terence Wesley-Smith Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 Michael Bevacqua, Monica C LaBriola, Kelly G Marsh, Clement Yow Mulalap, Tyrone J Taitano Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 Mary Tuti Baker, Lorenz Gonschor, Margaret Mutu, Christina Newport, Forrest Wade Young Book and Media Reviews Making Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, by David Hanlon Reviewed by Greg Dvorak The Kanak Awakening: The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia, by David Chappell Reviewed by Oona Le Meur France in the South Pacific: Power and Politics, by Denise Fisher Reviewed by William Cavert Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics, by Stuart Kirsch Reviewed by Pierre-Yves Le Meur Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, edited by Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff Reviewed by Dan Taulapapa McMullin Buveurs de Kava, by Patricia Siméoni and Vincent Lebot Reviewed by Knut Rio Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples, edited by Sharlotte Neely Reviewed by Jeremia Sataraka Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English, by Emanuel J Drechsel Reviewed by Gavin Lamb Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch [documentary] Reviewed by Cathy Pyrek Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 [documentary] Reviewed by David Lipset Melanesia: Art and Encounter, edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams, and Ben Burt Reviewed by Katherine Higgins Featured Artist: Lemi Ponifasio  Birds with Sky Mirrors (2010), by Lemi Ponifasio Lemi Ponifasio is a theater director, New Zealand Arts Laureate, tufuga, and Samoan high chief; he has been described as a profound visionary whose work transcends genres to redefine the power of art. In 1995 he founded MAU, a dance theater and creative forum for collaborative engagement among artists, scholars, community leaders, and activists. MAU now regularly performs in the most prestigious international arts festivals. | Fall 28(2) Articles Moving Objects: Reflections on Oceanic Collections Margaret Jolly The I and the We: Individuality, Collectivity, and Samoan Artistic Responses to Cultural Change April Henderson Retelling Chambri Lives: Ontological Bricolage Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington Dialogue Outcomes of State Territoriality and Minin Development for the Kanak in New Caledonia Maija Lassila Resources Pacific Literature Searches in the Internet Age Stuart Dawrs Political ReviewsThe Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2015 Nic Maclellan Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2015 Jon Fraenkel, Michael Leach, Howard Van Trease Book and Media Reviews Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba, by Katerina Martina Teaiwa Reviewed by Anne Perez Hattori The Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland, by Jared Mackley-Crump Reviewed by Kalissa Alexeyeff The Things We Value: Culture and History in Solomon Islands, edited by Ben Burt and Lissant Bolton Reviewed by Deborah Waite The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections, by Robbie Shilliam Reviewed by Paul Lyons Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka, by kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui Reviewed by Marie Alohalani Brown A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi, by Hokulani K Aikau Reviewed by Maile Arvin Repositioning Pacific Arts: Artists, Objects, Histories, edited by Anne E Allen, with Deborah B Waite Reviewed by Stacy L Kamehiro Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific, by David Robie Reviewed by Shailendra Singh Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, by Giff Johnson Reviewed by David W Kupferman The Polynesian Iconoclasm: Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power, by Jeffrey Sissons Reviewed by David Lipset Te Vaka [performance] Reviewed by Candice Elanna Steiner The Empires’ Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific, by Sasha Davis Reviewed by Teresia Teaiwa Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the Pacific, edited by Jeffrey Carroll, Brandy Nālani McDougall, and Georganne Nordstrom Reviewed by Joyce Pualani Warren In Football We Trust [documentary film] Reviewed by Lea Lani Kinikini Kauvaka Featured Artist: Star Gossage  Far Away Eyes (2012), by Star Gossage Star Gossage is one of New Zealand’s foremost living painters and has Ngati Wai, Ngati Ruanui, French, English, and Portuguese ancestry. She lives in Pakiri, a coastal settlement north of Auckland, and makes paintings that the former Curator Māori from Auckland Art Gallery, Ngahiraka Mason, describes as gentle and powerfully evocative of spiritual connections and tribal narratives. They “affirm her whakapapa, relationships to land, sky and ocean” and “experiences shared by her people and the mystical worlds they have inhabited.” Works such as Rahui Kiri Rd, for example, acknowledge her chiefly Ngati Wai lineage as great-great-granddaughter of Rahui Kiri, daughter of Ngati Wai chief Te Kiri. |