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| Spring 34(1) Articles One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua Bonnie Etherington Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics Christen T Sasaki The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism Ryan Schram “We Are So Happy EPF Came”: Transformations of Gender in Port Moresby Schools Ceridwen Spark and Martha Macintyre Dialogue Pacific Island Pride: How We Navigate Australia Dion Enari and Lorayma Taula Pacific People Navigating the Sacred Vā to Frame Relational Care: A Conversation between Friends across Space and Time Silia Pa‘usisi Finau, Mele Katea Paea, and Martyn Reynolds Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 Guigone Camus, Zaldy Dandan Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 Brian T Alofaituli, Peter Clegg, Margaret Mutu, ‘Umi Perkins, T Melanie Puka, Amanda Sullivan-Lee, Salote Talagi, Patricia (Trish) Tupou Book and Media Reviews E Hina e! E Hine e! Mana Waahine Maaori/Maoli of Past, Present and Future [exhibition] Reviewed by Mere Taito Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology, edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen Reviewed by Margaret Jolly Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses, by Philipp Schorch, with Noelle M K Y Kahanu, Sean Mallon, Cristián Moreno Pakarati, Mara Mulrooney, Nina Tonga, and Ty P Kāwika Tengan Reviewed by Krystine Cabrera A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830–1930, by Ngarino Ellis, with new photography by Natalie Robertson Reviewed by Axel Defngin Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, by Albert J Schütz Reviewed by Heather Ann Franquez Garrido Waikiki [feature film] Reviewed by David Lipset Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood, by Dean Itsuji Saranillio Reviewed by Shannon Pōmaika‘i Hennessey Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa, by JoAnna Poblete Reviewed by Michelle Harangody Featured Artist: Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu ![]() Ka Pō Ho‘iho‘i (2020), by Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu (‘o ia/she/her) is a transdisciplinary Kanaka ‘Ōiwi scholar, curator, and artist presently residing in Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is a global citizen with Indigenous, Moana genealogies to Moloka‘i Nui a Hina and Kanaka‘aukai from Kalapana, Hawai‘i. An alumna of the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa’s Center for Pacific Islands Studies and a senior research fellow at Ngā Wai a Te Tūī, Māori and Indigenous Research Center, she received a Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Marsden Fast-Start grant (2021–2024) focusing on retracing the story lines of Pacific women voyagers and navigators, with special interest in Hina, Hine, Sina, Sima, and Nim‘anoa. | Fall 34(2) Editor’s Note Interdisciplinarity Reimagined Vilsoni Hereniko Articles Kapaemahu: Toward Story Sovereignty of a Hawaiian Tradition of Healing and Gender Diversity Dean Hamer and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu The Kula of the Gospels: Christianity, Magic, and Exchange in the Trobriand Islands Sergio Jarillo Contemporary Moana Mobilities: Settler-Colonial Citizenship, Upward Mobility, and Transnational Pacific Identities Patrick Saulmatino Thomsen, Lana Lopesi, and Kevin Lujan Lee Dialogue A Different Kind of Vā: Spiraling through Time and Space Albert L Refiti, A-Chr (Tina) Engels-Schwarzpaul, Billie Lythberg, Valance Smith, and Layne Waerea Resources Toward an Understanding of Patron-Client Politics and Corruption in Papua New Guinea: A Narrative Review Teddy Winn Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2021 Nic Maclellan Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2021 Volker Boege, Mathias Chauchat, Joseph Daniel Foukona, Budi Hernawan, James Stiefvater, Jope Tarai Book and Media Reviews Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods, by Michael Fabinyi and Kate Barclay, by Debra McDougall Reviewed by Fiona McCormack Kai Piha: Nā Loko I‘a [documentary film] Reviewed by Kainalu Kala Kukea Steward Kalaupapa Place Names: Waikolu to Nihoa, by John R K Clark Reviewed by Charles Langlas Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific, by Nicholas Thomas Reviewed by Richard Feinberg Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth- Century Oceanian Travel Accounts, by Chris J Thomas Reviewed by Leanne P Day Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, by Jeff Evans Reviewed by Meagan Harden Margaret Mead, by Paul Shankman Reviewed by Nancy McDowell Featured Artist: Yuki Kihara ![]() Paul Gauguin with a Hat (After Gauguin) (2020), by Yuki Kihara Yuki Kihara is a globally accomplished, award-winning interdisciplinary Pacific artist, researcher, and curator. She is of Samoan and Japanese heritage and identifies as Fa‘afafine, a third gender meaning “in the manner of a woman.” Her pathbreaking works exist at the critical intersections of gender, indigeneity, history, diaspora, decolonization, and the environment. Kihara studied fashion design and technology at Wellington Polytechnic (now Massey University) in Aotearoa New Zealand, where she later worked as a costume designer and stylist in fashion magazines, the performing arts, and the film industry before forging a distinct career as a contemporary artist, bringing her industry experience into her art practice. |
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