Vā Moana : Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Refiti, Albert L.

Series:

Pacific Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations and culture.

Pacific Islanders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, 2026.

Summary:

'Vā Moana' explores Pacific concepts of vā, space and relationality, tracing their origins and evolution across homelands and diasporas. It examines how these ideas are enacted and reimagined in contemporary urban and global contexts.

Contents:

Intro

List of figures

Figure 1.1: Cosmogram of the Samoan cosmogony.

Figure 1.2: Sectional diagram of Samoan spatial system showing the spheres of influence within settlements.

Figure 1.3: The divarication and differentiation of parts in Papa's birthing process.

Figure 3.1: A view of the kūpuna tent (bottom right corner) at the Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu below Mauna a Wākea, 2 November 2019.

Figure 3.2: View of the crowd as seen from within the kūpuna tent, 18 July 2019.

Figure 3.3: Becoming the ancestor, 27 July 2019.

Figure 3.4: Fiji at noon ʻaha, 16 August 2019.

Figure 3.5: Jam 4 Mauna Kea, 11 August 2019.

Figure 6.1: Gabaela or 'Nga: A lime spatula and currency holder, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, 19th or early 20th century.

Figure 6.2: Delegates from Pohnpei perform at the Farmers Co-op in Dededo, Guåhan (Guam), May 2016.

Figure 6.3: The Tongan delegation performs for the audience who gathered to bless and celebrate the new Guam Museum, Hagåtña, Guåhan (Guam), May 2016.

Figure 6.4: Je-andralyn Duenas and the Paʻa Taotao Tano' cultural dancers perform at Paseo de Susana, Hagåtña, Guåhan (Guam), May 2016.

Figure 9.1: La'a La'a Luga le Fanua o le Mata-A Look through My Eyelands.

Figure 9.2: FAB.rication, installation view of Pasifika Styles, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Figure 9.3: Acti.VĀ.tion, Jerome Kavanagh (Pūoro Jerome) testing a pūkāea from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology stores, 2007.

Figure 9.4: Rosanna Raymond, Ie Malie I Uta, 2017.

Figure 9.5: FAB.rication, installation photograph, Aolele-Wandering Cloud, Pacific Sisters He Toā Tāera | Fashion Activists, 2018.

Figure 9.6: Acti.VĀ.tion, image still from XoV^, 2021.

Figure 11.1: A model of the TLV paradigm in the museum context.

Figure 13.1: Hakari stand.

Figure 13.2: The Sky Ways (Ngā Kiko-Rangi).

Figure 13.3: O'Pioneer, 2020.

Figure 13.4: Cease Tide of Wrong-Doing, 2020.

Figure 15.1: Diagram of time represented as circular.

Figure 15.2: An illustration of the piko spiralling outward, representative of the umbilical cord that connects us to our genealogy.

Figure 15.3: The interior of the hale at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina.

Figure 15.4: An illustration by William Ellis of the Morai (w:heiau) at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaiʻi.

Figure 15.5: A diagram of living arrangements in a wāto (traditional land tenure) on Namdrik Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Figure 15.6: Rendering of design concept for 'Ike o Keahialaka.

Figure 20.1: Puhi Bay looking towards Mauna Kea.

Figure 20.2: The first page of Hawaiian Place Names, by H. B. Nalimu.

Figure 21.1: Vā's rhythms and beyond-ness-like nature within, between and across entities.

List of acronyms

Tōmua Introduction: Vā, wā and the spaces in between

I. Whakapapa: Samoan, Tongan, Māori and Hawaiian origins

1. Vā atoa and the ever-moving-present in the Samoan cosmogony Solo o le Vā

2. Wā speculations and the realm of possibility

3. Kū 'o Wākea i ka Wā: Expanding Hawaiian time and space on the Mauna

4. 'The plurality of hoa': Tā-vā and Moana thought in the work of Hūfanga-He-Ako-Moe-Lotu 'Ōkusitino Māhina, an interview

5. Tauhi fonua, tauhi vā

II. Sea of islands: Vā within global constellations

6. Oceania: The shape of time

7. Oceania's crucible effect, Moana Cosmopolitans and the reinvention of vā

8. Vā Moana: A relational geography for Moana Cosmopolitan worlds

9. Conser.VĀ.tion | Acti.VĀ.tion: Culti.VĀ.ting niu museology practices through the Vā Body

10. The spiralling stories of Moana of the South Seas: Between colonial panoramas and vā relations

III. Tauhi vā: Vā in diaspora.

11. Teu le vā as Indigenous relationality in contemporary museological praxis

12. Tausiga ʻo Vā: The vā relational turn in 1990s Pacific art

13. Three-dimensional whakapapa as a manifestation of the vā/wā

14. Culture matters: Vā and wā in contemporary youth justice

15. Designing with wā: Mapping Kanaka 'Ōiwi spatial ontologies

IV. Whānau whānui: Expansive relationality, place-making and online vā

16. Placepersons: Places that relate through work and migration in Papua New Guinea

17. Click, connect, karakia! Tikanga for online connections

18. The vā of sound, voice, music-making and performance for Moana people

19. Mele of resistance: Spanning three wā of aloha ʻāina in action

20. Place to place, space to space: Huakaʻi hele as decolonial praxis and the tidalectic repertoires of place

21. Vā theory and theorising beyond into the vahanoa: Post-human rhythmic conditions in Tu'atonga

Afterword

Contributors

Glossary.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-76046-724-3

OCLC:

1568995990