Changing contexts, shifting meanings : transformations of cultural traditions in Oceania / edited by Elfriede Hermann.
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- Conference papers and proceedings.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, [2011]
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- 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.
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- 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.
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