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" Remembrance of Pacific pasts : "
edited by Robert Borofsky.
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978090
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b732460
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Remembrance of Pacific pasts : : an invitation to remake history /\ edited by Robert Borofsky.
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaiʻi Press,, 2000.
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1 online resource (xvi, 557 pages) :: illustrations
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0585463468
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0824821890
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082482301X
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9780824821890
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9780824823016
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-535) and index.
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| Contents
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Custom and the way of the land: past and present in Vanuatu and Fiji / Margaret Jolly -- The relationship between the United States and the native Hawaiian people: a case of spouse abuse / Brenda Luana Machado Lee -- Moe'uhane / Joseph Balaz -- Simply Chamarro: telling tales of demise and survival in Guam / Vicente M. Diaz -- Mixed blood / Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa -- Ngati Kangaru / Patricia Grace -- Our Pacific / Vaine Rasmussen -- Treaty-related research and versions of New Zealand history / Alan Ward -- Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins / Robert Borofsky -- A view from afar (Middle East) -- an interview with Edward Said -- Epilogue: pasts to remember / Epeli Hau'ofa.
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Preface: A Belauan story of creation / Ngirakland Malsol -- An invitation / Robert Borofsky -- Inside us the dead / Albert Wendt -- Releasing the voices: historicizing colonial encounters in the Pacific / Peter Hempenstall --Starting from trash / Klaus Neumann -- Indigenous knowledge and academic imperialism / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Valuing the Pacific -- an interview with James Clifford -- Possessing Tahiti / Greg Dening -- Remembering first contact: realities and romance / Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden -- Constructing "Pacific" peoples / Bernard Smith -- A view from afar (North America) -- a commentary / Richard White -- Hawai'i in the early nineteenth century: the kingdom and the kingship / Marshall Sahlins -- Deaths on the mountain: an account of police violence in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / August Kituai -- Colonial conversions: difference, hierarchy, and history in early twentieth-century evangelical propaganda / Nicholas Thomas -- The French way in plantation systems / Michel Panoff -- The New Zealand wars and the myth of conquest / James Belich -- Theorizing Māori women's lives: paradoxes of the colonial male gaze / Patricia Grimshaw and Helen Morton --Conqueror / W.S. Merwin -- World War II in Kiribati / Sam Highland -- Barefoot benefactors: a study of Japanese views of Melanesians / Hisafumi Saito -- A view from afar (South Asia) -- an interview with Gyan Prakash -- Decolonization / Stewart Firth -- Colonised people / Grace Mera Molisa -- My blood / Konai Helu Thaman.
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| Abstract
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How does one describe the Pacific's pasts? The easy confidence historians once had in writing about the region has disappeared in the turmoil surrounding today's politics of representation. Earlier narratives that focused on what happened when are now accused of encouraging myths of progress. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts takes a different course. It acknowledges history's multiplicity and selectivity, its inability to represent the past in its entirety "as it really was" and instead offers points of reference for thinking with and about the region's pasts. It encourages readers to participate in the historical process by constructing alternative histories that draw on the volume's chapters. The book's thirty-four contributions, written by a range of authors spanning a variety of styles and disciplines, are organized into four sections. The first presents frames of reference for analyzing the problems, poetics, and politics involved in addressing the region's pasts today. The second considers early Islander-Western contact focusing on how each side sought to physically and symbolically control the other. The third deals with the colonial dynamics of the region: the "tensions of empire" that permeated imperial rule in the Pacific. The fourth explores the region's postcolonial politics through a discussion of the varied ways independence and dependence overlap today. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts includes many of the region's most distinguished authors such as Albert Wendt, Greg Dening, Epeli Hau'ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Patricia Grace, and Nicholas Thomas. In addition, it features chapters by well-known writers from outside Pacific Studies -- Edward Said, James Clifford, Richard White, and Gyan Prakash -- which help place the region's dynamics in comparative perspective. By moving Pacific history beyond traditional, empirical narratives to new ways for conversing about history, by drawing on current debates surrounding the politics of representation to offer different ways for thinking about the region's pasts, this work has relevance for students and scholars of history, anthropology, and cultural studies both within and beyond the region.
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Public opinion-- Pacific Area.
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Opinion publique-- Pacifique, Région du.
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Civilization.
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HISTORY-- World.
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Public opinion.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Kolonialisme.
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Postkolonialisme.
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Pacific Area, Civilization.
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Pacific Area, Foreign public opinion.
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Pacifique, Région du, Civilisation.
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Pacifique, Région du, Opinion publique étrangère.
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Pacific Area.
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Pazifischer Raum
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| Dewey Classification
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909/.09823
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DU28.3.R45 2000eb
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15.90bcl
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15.90.bcl
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RX 60977rvk
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RX 60977.rvk
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| Added Entry
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Borofsky, Robert,1944-
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