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Informationen zum Autor David Hanlon is professor of history at the University of Hawai'i at Mânoa. Geoffrey M. White is senior fellow at the East-West Center and professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, where he also serves as editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs Klappentext The "Pacific" has long been a site for debates over disciplinary approaches and the ethics and politics of research within neocolonial and postcolonial contexts. This volume makes a significant contribution to these debates and to the related and ongoing exchanges concerning area studies, the "globalization" of capitalism, and its attendant cultural, social, and political effects. In so doing, the authors link work from the Pacific with theoretical and methodological issues raised in other areas of the globe. This collection of the best from Contemporary Pacific will prove invaluable to scholars, students and all interested in the study of history, culture, and identity in the Pacific and in (post) colonial societies everywhere. Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific navigates the reader through nineteen defining articles published between 1989 and 1999 in the first ten volumes of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs. Cultural critics, historicans, and anthropologists will find the methodological and theoretical concerns addressed in this volume of essential global importance. Oceana In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into avariety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands... Journal Of The Polynesian Society In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into a variety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands. Journal Of The Polynesian Society Zusammenfassung As new nations emerge in the Pacific Islands region! political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities! histories! and futures. This volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that aim to challenge simplistic paradigms of "area study". Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 PART I: Re-Imagining the Pacific Chapter 3 Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific Chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within Chapter 5 bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans Chapter 6 The Ocean in Us Part 7 PART II: The Politics and Poetics of History in the Pacific Chapter 8 History in the Pacific Chapter 9 Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam Chapter 10 In Order to Win their Friendship: Renegotiating First Contact Chapter 11 Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Histiography or Problematic Paradigm Part 12 PART III: Cultural Politics Chapter 13 Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific Chapter 14 Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle Chapter 15 Reply to Trask Chapter 16 Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politic...
