Changing contexts, shifting meanings : transformations of cultural traditions in Oceania / edited by Elfriede Hermann.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Hermann, Elfriede.
• JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Pacific Islanders.
• Social change.
• Civilization.
• Oceania--Civilization--Congresses.
• Social change--Oceania--Congresses.
• Pacific Islanders--Congresses.
• Oceania.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

• Introduction: Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations / Elfriede Hermann
• Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: The Cook/Forster Collection, For Example / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
• Part I. Early Encounters.
• Histories of the Before: Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time / David Hanlon
• Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures / Margaret Jolly
• Encountering Agency: Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania / Bronwen Douglas
• Aphrodite's Island: Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti / Anne Salmond
• An Encounter with Violence in Paradise: Georg Forster's Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772-1775) / Gundolf Krüger
• Inventing Polynesia / Serge Tcherkézoff
• Part II. Memories.
• Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu / Lamont Lindstrom
• Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus / Ton Otto
• Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance: Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past / Wolfgang Kempf
• Part III. Global and (Trans)local Processes.
• Moving onto the Stage: Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance / Miriam Kahn
• Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market: The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia / Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris
• Alienation and Appropriation: Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York / Martha Kaplan
• Shanti and Mana: The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji / John D. Kelly
• Justice in Wallis-'Uvea: Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
• Part IV. Cultural Exchange and Identities.
• Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past / Toon van Meijl
• Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity / Paul van der Grijp
• A Tale of Three Time Travelers: Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies / Karen L. Nero
• Cultural Change in Oceania: Remembering the Historical Questions / Peter Hempenstall
• Epilogue / Aletta Biersack.

Notes:

• Papers from a symposium sponsored by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, held Feb. 23-26, 2006, in conjunction with the exhibition Life in the Pacific of the 1700s.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780824860141
• 0824860144

Publisher Number:

• 99984547358
• 40019887035

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.