基本説明
A diverse range of analysis and commentary that challenge simplistic paradigms of "area study" and urge to rethink the ways we imagine the Pacific.
Full Description
Long known for its vast geographic and cultural diversity, the Pacific Islands region today is witness to some of the most dramatic histories of decolonization and postcolonial development anywhere in the world. As new nations emerge_and struggle to emerge_political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. In the midst of these transformations, this volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that challenge tired and simplistic paradigms of Oarea studyO and urge us to rethink the ways we imagine and represent the Pacific. The essays also challenge the conventions of scholarship itself, offering provocative reflections on the politics and ethics of research and writing across disciplines. The authors examine a range of subjects relevant to formations of cultural and regional identity, including the politics and poetics of history, of tradition, and of cultural expressions in literature, film, and the arts. In doing so, their discussions open up new ways of thinking about the Pacific as well as about relations between tradition and modernity, and about processes of Omodernization O and globalization everywhere.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 PART IFraming the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the South Pacific Chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge and Empowerment: Rural Development Examined from Within Chapter 5 bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans Chapter 6 The Ocean in Us Part 7 PART II: The Politics and Poetics of History in the Pacific Chapter 8 History in the Pacific Chapter 9 Simply Chamorro: Telling Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam Chapter 10 In Order to Win their Friendship: Renegotiating First Contact Chapter 11 Active Agents versus Passive Victims: Decolonized Histiography or Problematic Paradigm Part 12 PART III: Cultural Politics Chapter 13 Creating the Past: Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific Chapter 14 Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle Chapter 15 Reply to Trask Chapter 16 Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholorship Chapter 17 Specters of Inauthenticity Chapter 18 The Sin at Awarua Part 19 PART IV: Cultural Media(tions) Chapter 20 In Whose Face?: An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff Chapter 21 Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure in Jane Campion's The Piano Chapter 22 Radio and the Redefinition of Kastom in Vanuatu Chapter 23 Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web
