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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Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi Press
2000, 2000
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-535) and index
- 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
- 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