Remembrance of Pacific Pasts : an Invitation to Remake History /

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 progre...

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Otros Autores: Alan, Ward (Contribuidor), Albert, Wendt (Contribuidor), August, Kituai (Contribuidor), Bernard, Smith (Contribuidor), Borofsky, Robert (Editor ), Brenda Luana, Machado Lee (Contribuidor), Edward, Schieffelin (Contribuidor), Epeli, Hau'ofa (Contribuidor), Grace Mera, Molisa (Contribuidor), Greg, Dening (Contribuidor), Helen, Morton (Contribuidor), Hisafumi, Saito (Contribuidor), James, Belich (Contribuidor), Joseph, Balaz (Contribuidor), Klaus, Neumann (Contribuidor), Konai Helu, Thaman (Contribuidor), Margaret, Jolly (Contribuidor), Marshall, Sahlins (Contribuidor), Michel, Panoff (Contribuidor), Ngirakland, Malsol (Contribuidor), Nicholas, Thomas (Contribuidor), Patricia, Grace (Contribuidor), Patricia, Grimshaw (Contribuidor), Peter, Hempenstall (Contribuidor), Robert, Borofsky (Contribuidor), Robert, Crittenden (Contribuidor), Sam, Highland (Contribuidor), Stewart, Firth (Contribuidor), Teresia Kieuea, Teaiwa (Contribuidor), Vaine, Rasmussen (Contribuidor), Vicente M., Diaz (Contribuidor), Vilsoni, Hereniko (Contribuidor), W. S., Merwin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]
Temas:
HISTORY > Oceania.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: A Belauan Story of Creation
  • Acknowledgments
  • An Invitation
  • SECTION ONE Frames of Reference
  • Introduction
  • Making Histories
  • 1 Inside Us the Dead
  • 2 Releasing the Voices Historicizing Colonial Encounters in the Pacific
  • 3 Starting from Trash
  • 4 Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Imperialism
  • Valuing the Pacific--An Interview with James Clifford
  • SECTION TWO The Dynamics of Contact
  • Introduction
  • Possessing Others
  • 5 Possessing Tahiti
  • 6 Remembering First Contact Realities and Romance
  • 7 Constructing "Pacific" Peoples
  • A View from Afar (North America)--A Commentary by Richard White
  • SECTION THREE Colonial Engagements
  • Introduction
  • Colonial Entanglements
  • 8 Hawai'i in the Early Nineteenth Century The Kingdom and the Kingship
  • 9 Deaths on the Mountain An Account of Police Violence in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
  • Tensions of Empire
  • 10 Colonial Conversions Difference, Hierarchy, and History in Early Twentieth-Century Evangelical Propaganda
  • 11 The French Way in Plantation Systems
  • Styles of Dominance
  • 12 The New Zealand Wars and the Myth of Conquest
  • 13 Theorizing Mâori Women's Lives: Paradoxes of the Colonial Male Gaze
  • 14 Conqueror
  • World War II
  • 15 World War II in Kiribati
  • 16 Barefoot Benefactors A Study of Japanese Views of Melanesians
  • A View from Afar (South Asia)--An Interview with Gyan Prakash
  • SECTION FOUR "Postcolonial" Politics
  • Introduction
  • Continuities and Discontinuities
  • 17 Decolonization
  • 18 Colonised People
  • 19 My Blood
  • 20 Custom and the Way of the Land Past and Present in Vanuatu and Fiji
  • 21 The Relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian People A Case of Spouse Abuse
  • Identity and Empowerment
  • 22 Moe'uhane
  • 23 Simply Chamorro Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam
  • 24 Mixed Blood
  • 25 Ngati Kangaru
  • Integrating "the Past" into "the Present"
  • 26 Our Pacific
  • 27 Treaty-Related Research and Versions of New Zealand History
  • 28 Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins
  • A View from Afar (Middle East)--An Interview with Edward Said
  • Epilogue Pasts to Remember
  • Abbreviations and Newspapers
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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