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Pacific News from Manoa

NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

No. 4 October-December 2003

conference, which will be organized around themes INSIDE reflecting historical perspectives, choreography and "Learning Oceania" Provides Momentum ...... 2 movement, performance contexts, music and rhythm, Choreographer Neil Ieremia is Visiting Artist ...... 2 and the material culture of dance, is planned for Ethnographic Field School in Tonga ...... 3 2005. The conveners envision at least two Field Schools in Rapa Nui and Solomon Islands ... 3 November performance nights in conjunction with public talks, Mellor Awardee Chosen ...... 3 exhibitions, and dance workshops. For more Hawaiian-Language Newspaper Resource ...... 4 information, contact Katerina Teaiwa at CPIS Faculty Look at Climate and Health ...... 5 [email protected]. Chanwai-Earle Will Perform in Hawai'i ...... 5 The Contemporary Pacific, Vol 16, No I ...... 5 Visitors to the Center ...... 6 HERENIKO'S FILM CHOSEN FOR Occasional Seminars and Presentations ...... 6 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Faculty, Student, and Alumni Activities ...... 7-8 Members of the center wish colleague Vilsoni Publications, Moving Images, CDs ...... 8 HERENIKO well as he heads to Utah in January Conferences ...... 10 2004 to show his film The Land Has Eyes: Pear ta Bulletin Board ...... 12 na 'on maf at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Hereniko, a native of Rotuma, Fiji, directed the film, DANCE IN OCEANIA IS THEME FOR which is the first feature-drama made by an CENTER'S 2005 CONFERENCE indigenous filmmaker from Fiji. It tells the story of a young woman, Viki (played by Sapeta T AITO), who Dance and music have always been central forms of redeems her family's name by exposing the secrets spiritual, political, artistic, physical, and intellectual of her island's most powerful and important people. expression throughout Oceania. It is through dance Shamed by her village for being poor and the that those living in or connected to this ocean engage daughter of a wrongly convicted thief, Viki is and reflect both their lived and ancestral worlds, from Wellington, Los Angeles, and Sydney to Apia, Suva, and Tarawa. The center's 2005 conference, "Culture Moves! Dance in Oceania from Hiva to Hip Hop," is designed to bring together choreographers, dancers, composers, curators, costume makers, scholars, writers, musicians, and artists to explore the knowledge and practice of dance in Oceania, across cultural, national, academic, and aesthetic boundaries. Katerina TEAIW A, assistant professor at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, will convene the conference in Wellington, New Zealand, with collaborators April HENDERSON, of Victoria University of Wellington, and Sean MALLON, of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, the first overseas site for a CPIS annual conference, was chosen because of its growing role as Sapeta Taito as Viki in The Land Has Eyes. a creative and vibrant center for Pacific arts. The Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 inspired and haunted by the "warrior woman" from discussion of the pros and cons of developing a PhD her island's mythology. With the exceptions of program in Pacific studies at the University of "warrior woman" (played by Rena OWEN) and the Hawai'i at Manoa. In plenary sessions, breakout "British judge," the cast is Rotuman. discussion groups, and informal settings, faculty and The Land Has Eyes will be screened 15 through students from institutions in and outside of Oceania 25 January in Utah and again at the Rotterdam addressed the ideological and pragmatic dimensions International Film Festival, 21 January through of this undertaking. The center is grateful to all those 1 February. It was produced by Jeannette Paulson who contributed to this productive and collegial HERENIKO and Corey TONG, with executive gathering, and encourages others to join producer Merata MIT A. The film's website is the discussion. The center's website at http://www.thelandhaseyes.com. For an interview with http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis has a link to the Hereniko, see http://www.efilmcritic.com/ conference site where background materials, feature.php?feature=908. speakers' papers, and other contributions have been posted, as well as photos reflecting the workshop's The annual Sundance Film Festival is a major serious and lighter moments! program of the Sundance Institute, which was founded by Robert Redford in 1981 to contribute to the development of artists of independent vision. The festival is considered the premier showcase for American and international independent film. Other Pacific films in the Native Forum section of the 2004 festival include three films from Aotearoa/New Zealand: Ngatahi: Know the Links, a film about hip­ hop as an international movement, directed by musician and filmmaker Dean HAPET A; and two shorts, Tiga e Le /loa, directed by Popo MALUFAITOAGA, and Two Cars, One Night, directed by Taika WATITI.

"LEARNING OCEANIA" PROVIDES PLANNING MOMENTUM The center's fall workshop, held 13-15 November Heather Young Leslie, Steven Winduo, Karen Nero, and 2003 in Honolulu, provided a stimulating venue for a David Gegeo at the "Learning Oceania" workshop.

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies NEIL IEREMIA WILL BE VISITING School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies ARTIST AT CENTER IN APRIL University of Hawai'i at Mlinoa 1890 East-West Road The Center for Pacific Islands Studies will be hosting Honolulu, HI 96822 USA the pathbreaking choreographer Neil IEREMIA as its Phone: (808) 956·7700 visiting artist for 2004. Ieremia, CEO and artistic Fax: (808) 956-7053 director for the Black Grace Dance Company in email: [email protected] David Hanlon, Director Auckland, New Zealand, studied contemporary dance Letitia Hickson, Editor at the Auckland Performing Arts School. He joined The newsletter can be read on-line at: the Douglas Wright Dance Company and in 1995 http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/Newsle1ter.h1m founded the all-male company Black Grace. His Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. works include commissions from the Royal New Acknowledgment of the source would be appreciated. To receive the newsletter electronically, contact the Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Symphony. editor at the email address above. Black Grace celebrated its European debut at the The University of Hawai'i at Manoa is an Holland Dance Festival, The Hague, on 29-31 Equal Opportunity/Affinnative Action Institution. October 2003, and toured the Netherlands in November. Under Ieremia's direction Black Grace 2 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 has received praise as "a breath of fresh air," ASW ANI, from the University of California, Santa "accessible and appealing," with work that "has real Barbara). Both programs are designed for integrity and unpretentious originality." undergraduate and graduate students. Predominantly Pacific Islander and Maori, the Hunt will offer a choice of two sessions, beginning company is renowned for its ability to combine 31 May and 5 July, in which students will participate traditional and contemporary dance forms. in survey, mapping, excavation, geophysical survey, Ieremia will be in residence at the center during museum and laboratory analyses, and training Native the first week of April 2004, and will give a master Rapanui high school students. Applications should be class as well as public lectures. The visiting artist made by 17 February 2004 through the UH Study program is made possible by a US Department of Abroad Program: Education Title VI National Resource Center grant to Shankar's program is funded by the National the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Last year's Science Foundation Faculty Early Career visiting artist was Fiji playwright and filmmaker Larry Development Program and offers financial support Thomas. (airfare, room, and board costs) for participants. The program, which features training in ethnographic and ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD SCHOOL IN marine science field methods, cross-cultural TONGA IN 2004 understanding, basic Roviana language classes, and individual research projects, is primarily aimed at The center is a cosponsor of an ethnographic field students of Pacific Islands descent, although students school to be held in Tonga, 29 May through 10 July, of all backgrounds will be considered and are headed by CPIS affiliate faculty member Heather encouraged to apply. For more information see the YOUNG LESLIE, with the assistance of Maile field school website at DRAKE and the people of Ha'ano, Ha'apai, Tonga. http://www.an th. ucsb.edu/faculty/aswani/Field school/ The field school, which will be conducted through index.htm. Deadline for applications for the 20 June the UH Manoa Study Abroad Program, aims to to 18 July 2004 program is 1 March 2004. provide potential cultural anthropologists with an exposure to cross-cultural ethnographic research methods and techniques. It also aims to provide a MELLOR A WARDEE CHOSEN model and precedent for a culturally competent Congratulations to Masami TSUJITA, whose master's ethnographic field school curriculum in which village thesis, "Becoming a Samoan Factory Girl: Young residents control and contribute to the design, Samoan Women and a Japanese Factory,"received content, and method of research and learning. the University of Hawai 'i Norman Meller Research Students will begin the field school in Pangai, move Award for the 2002-2003 academic year. This to the island of Ha'ano, and conclude with a week in annual award is given to the most outstanding Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga. master's thesis or graduate research paper written by Potential students must be enrolled in a university, a student at UH Manoa and focused. on the Pacific either within, or outside the United States, and have Islands from a social science or humanities had 9 credits (or the equivalent) in cultural perspective. Tsujita's paper was cited for giving voice anthropology courses. Additional field school to Samoan women and for advancing an information will be available on the study abroad understanding of development in the Pacific through website at http://www.studyabroad.org/programs.htm. a needed feminist perspective. The award includes a Heather Young Leslie can be contacted at check for $250. [email protected]. The award is made possible through a gift bequeathed by the late Dr Norman MELLER, a FIELD SCHOOLS IN RAPA NUI distinguished political scientist at UH Manoa and a AND SOLOMON ISLANDS former Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Contributions to the Norman Meller Award In addition to Young Leslie's field school in Tonga, Fund may be sent to the University of Hawai'i field training programs will be offered this year in Foundation, Bachman Hall 101, University of Rapa Nui (by UHM associate professor and Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822. archaeologist Terry HUNT) and Solomon Islands (by UHM anthropology department alumnus Shankar 3 ·--..-- - •ur

Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 Once the new OCR proved viable, a formal HO'OLAUPA 'I: Hawaiian Language project, Ho'olaupa'i: Hawaiian Language Newspaper Resource Newspaper Resource, was established under the By Puakea NOGELMAIER Bishop Museum Library and Archives. The project is under the direction of Kau'i GOODHUE. Her staff Hawaiian-language newspapers flourished through of ten are fluent in Hawaiian and have developed most of the 19'h and early 20'h centuries, generating their skills at handling computer networks, digitizing the largest body of material to be published by any images, and operating the programs required for native people of the Pacific during the period. OCR, HTML, and FfP processing. Most of the staff Between 1834 and the 1940s, scores of different are half-time, which keeps the work from being newspapers produced over 125,000 pages of print, overwhelming, allows flexibility for college classes, creating a huge archive of public discourse in minimizes the number of computer stations required, Hawaiian. While the twentieth-century transition and keeps the project within its current budget. from Hawaiian to English primacy in Hawai'i has In just over a year since Ho 'olaupa 'i began in long relegated this resource to relative obscurity, a earnest, operators have transformed between new project of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 4,000-5,000 pages of Hawaiian newspaper images Ho 'olaupa 'i, is working to develop unprecedented into text files that are searchable by word or phrase. access to the Hawaiian newspaper archives. Because columns in the original newspapers are Most of the Hawaiian-language newspapers tightly set, these images generate ten or more pages moldered for a century or more in archival holdings of searchable text file per newspaper page. The OCR until they were microfilmed for archival maintenance output to date is approximately 50,000 letter-size beginning in1960. Microfilm copies have been pages of text. accessible for decades, but research in the newspapers A website for Ho'olaupa'i, nearing completion, has relied on manual searches, page-by-page, will make the processed text files and digital images requiring patience, fluency in Hawaiian, and a of the original newspaper pages available to the willingness to repeat the process from scratch for general public. Readers will be able use the every new search. Selections from the newspapers specialized search engine to call up every occurrence have been translated for publication and research, of a given word, name, or phrase. Digital images general newspaper listings have been compiled, and allow comparison of the typescript against the partial, rudimentary indexes have been completed, original format and content. While the text will still but these provide only minimal access to the whole of be in the original language, Hawaiian, the ability to the contents. Hawaiian language renewal over the last locate the historical content through this technology two decades has increased interest and demand for is a boon to speakers and non-speakers alike. access to the archive of newspaper resources, but the Ho'olaupa'i represents a breakthrough in the only certain ways to create tools for searching the development of Hawaiian resources, with implications various papers appeared to be manual indexing, and possibilities for all fields of study relating to which has been initiated, or retyping of the texts to Hawaiian language, history, and culture. The process create searchable files. of creating access is complex, time-consuming, and A pilot project to mechanically generate expensive, but recognition is growing about the searchable text files was set up in 2002 under the importance of this unique archive in illuminating the non-profit organization Alu Like, Inc, to test OCR past and clarifying the present. Funding is still (optical character recognition) technology that can problematic, but every avenue is being explored to "read" digital images of old newspapers. Earlier keep the project viable and to expand it, so that OCR programs had failed because of the mixed access to the entire resource can be available in years quality of the original printing and the aged rather than decades. Many people anxiously await condition of Hawaiian newspapers. The pilot project, this resource. Readers can check the Bishop Museum modeled on the recent success in New Zealand with website, http://www.bishopmuseum.org, for Maori newspapers, used a new, trainable form of OCR announcements about this project. that could be taught to recognize wide variations in Dr Puakea NOGELMA!ER (CPIS MA 1989) teaches Hawaiian form and quality of printed material. Language in the UHM Department of Hawaiian and Indo- Pacific Languages and Literatures. 4 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003

CPIS FACULTY LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANW AI-EARLE WILL PERFORM AND HEALTH RELATIONSHIPS IN HAWAI'I For the past several years, the impact of climate New Zealand playwright, poet, and actress Lynda variability and climate change on human health has CHANWAI-EARLE will perform her one-woman play gained the attention of researchers Michael Ka Shue ("Letters Home"), on 24-25 January 2004, HAMNETI and medical geographer Nancy LEWIS, at Paliku Theatre at Windward Community College. both CPIS affiliate faculty members. As interest in The performances are free of charge. the relationship between climate and health variables Chanwai-Earle, a fourth-generation Chinese New has grown, the World Health Organization and other Zealander, spent her early childhood in New Guinea national and international agencies have turned their before completing her education in New Zealand. Ka attention to the implications in small island states. Shue follows the lives of three generations of Chinese Supported by the Asia Pacific Network for Global women across two continents. The New Zealand Change Research and the US National Oceanic and Herald calls the play "packed with wit-at once Atmospheric Administration, Hamnett, Lewis, and tragic, wry and drolly entertaining." others, such as UHM economist Larry NITZ, Angela The performances are sponsored by Miinoa: A FAANUNU from Tonga, Simon MCGREE and Pacific Journal of International Writing, the UHM colleagues from the Fiji Meteorological Service, and Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Paliku Navi LITIDAMU from the Fiji School of Medicine, Theatre. For more information, call Frank STEW ART have been involved in a project in Fiji. This project at (808 956-3059. looks as the impact of rainfall, temperature, and tropical cyclones on the risk of dengue fever, THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC diarrheal disease, influenza, acute respiratory disease, Vol 16, No 1, and special offer! ciguatera fish poisoning, and leptospirosis in Fiji. The first issue of The Contemporary Pacific for 2004 A workshop was held in Fiji, 17-18 September ,. 2003, where researchers presented statistical analyses is in press. Among its contents are: of climate and health variables. As expected, the relationships between climate variables and the target ARTICLES Whakapapa as a Maori Mental Construct: diseases are complex. The analyses are not yet Some Implications for the Debate over complete, but the clearest pattern appears to be Genetic Modification of Organisms increased likelihood of dengue fever when an Mere ROBERTS, Brad HAAMI, extended dry period has been followed by heavy Richard BENTON, Terre rainfall, a pattern observed elsewhere. One of the SATTERFIELD, Melissa L FINUCANE, reasons for trying to untangle these relationships is Mark HENARE, and Manuka HENARE that scientists can now predict droughts and changes Contested Visions of History in Aotearoa in rainfall associated with El Nino up to nine months New Zealand Literature; Witi Ihimaera's The in advance. Informing public health officials of Matriarch likely outcomes can mitigate the impact of climate Suzanne ROMAINE variability on health. It is important to note El Nino Tropical Fevers: "Madness" and Colonialism Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena do not in Pacific Literature affect the Pacific Islands in a uniform manner, so the Seri LUANGPHINITH application of this information must be site specific. Have We Been Thinking Upside Down? The Contemporary Emergence of Pacific Participants in the workshop developed Theoretical Thought recommendations for the Fiji Meteorological Service, Elise HUFFER and Ropate QALO the Fiji Ministry of Health, and the Fiji School of Medicine to improve the use of climate information POLITICAL REVIEWS in public health services in Fiji. A regional meeting Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 will be held in the first quarter of 2004 to disseminate July 2002 to 30 June 2003 the results of the project and to discuss how climate Kelly G MARSH-KAUTZ, Samuel F information could be used in public health in other MCPHETRES, Donald SHUSTER, parts of the Pacific Islands region. Kristina E STEGE 5 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July • Vicente DIAZ, American Culture Program, 2002 to 30 June 2003 University of Michigan Frederic ANGLEVIEL, Tracie Ku 'uipo • Tevita FALE, Director, Polynesian Eyes Society CUMMINGS, Jon Tikivanotau M JONASSEN, Margaret MUTU, Asofou • David GEGEO, Liberal Studies Institute, SO'O California State University, Monterey Bay This issue features the artwork of Rongotai • Armand HAGE, School of International LOMAS, a leading New Zealand animator, film and Relations, University of New Caledonia music video director, editor, and graphic designer. • Adria L IMADA, Asian American Studies Center, The images in the journal, which are taken from his UCLA video Te Ika a Maui, highlight his creative work as an • Margaret JOLLY, Head, Gender Relations Centre, animator. The video is featured in a landmark Australian National University Techno Maori CD-ROM: Maori Art in the Digital Age. • Patricia Y LEE, Chair, University of Hawai'i Board of Regents • Vijay NAIDU, Director, Development Studies, Victoria University of Wellington • Karen NERO, Director, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury • Lou and John RA TIE, Director and Associate Director, The Hill Center for World Studies • Bruno SAURA, Department of Anthropology, Universite de la Polynesie Frarn;aise • Jane TATIBOUET, Member, University of Hawai'i Board of Regents • Teresia TEAIW A, Programme Coordinator, Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington • Eric WADDELL, Department de Geographie, Universite Laval Image from Te Ika a Maui, created by Rongotai Lomas • Hans WILIANDER, Former Member, Congress of Micronesia To ring ih the new year, we have a special offer to • Steven WINDUO, Director, Melanesian and all new subscribers to The Contemporary Pacific, as Pacific Studies, University of Papua New Guinea well as past subscribers who renew for two years-a free issue of your choice! Choose from among any of the published issues (through the end of 2003), OCCASIONAL SEMINARS AND including special issues. If you are renewing or PRESENTATIONS IN HONOLULU subscribing by telephone, fax, email, or on-line form, CPIS assistant professor Katerina TEAIW A gave a simply note your first and second choice for the seminar on 31 October titled "Women in Oceania, bonus issue. (If you are ordering on-line, select two­ Feminism, and Pacific Studies: Some Reflections." year renewal and enter your first and second choice The seminar, which was cosponsored by the UHM in the comments box.) For issue co~tents, and to Women's Studies Program, was a broad survey of subscribe on-line, see the journal webpage at women's ideas and activities in Oceania. Noting that http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/. the application of a feminist label is problematic in Oceania, Teaiwa explored various sites of "feminist­ VISITORS TO THE CENTER like" thought and projects throughout the region, including the journal Grrrl Talk, produced by the Fiji Among the visitors to the center during the period Women's Rights Movement; women's poetry; and October through December 2003 were activism in the Pacific. • Dara CULHANE, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University 6 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 Jane STRACHAN, a teacher in the Department of "Cooperative Intervention and National Professional Studies in Education in the School of Rebuilding: Solomon Islands in the Australian Education at the University of Waikato in New Foreign Policy Jigsaw Puzzle" was the title of Zealand, was warmly received at her talk, "Gender Tarcisius Tara KABUTAULAKA's talk on 16 and Women 's National Policy Development in December. Kabutaulaka, a research fellow at PIDP­ Vanuatu," on 5 November. Strachan, who worked EWC, focused on the history and the implications of for two years on national policy development for the the Australian government's decision on 5 June 2003 Vanuatu Department of Women's Affairs, discussed to lead a Pacific Islands Forum regional intervention the working group's focus on women in decision in Solomon Islands. He pointed out that this step making, violence against women, and gender equity, marked a dramatic shift in Australian foreign policy as well as some of the obstacles to implementing toward the Solomons, in particular, and the Pacific good national women's policy in Vanuatu. The Islands, more generally. According to Kabutaulaka, Department of Educational Administration in the this shift in policy reflects a change in the way UHM College of Education, the Pacific Islands Australia views its place in the global arena and is Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center linked to its role as an ally of the US government in (EWC), and the Hawai'i Commission on the Status of the so-called "war against terrorism." He described Women cosponsored the talk. some problems with the way this intervention has CPIS affiliate faculty member and associate been framed by Australia and the difficult problems professor of history at UH Manoa David CHAPPELL that lie ahead for the Solomons in the years to come. gave a talk, "The 'Africanization' Accusation in The talk was cosponsored by PIDP. Recent Pacific Discourse: Who's to Blame for 'Disorder' on the Periphery?" on 6 November, FACULTY ACTIVITIES cosponsored by the Pacific Islands Development Tahitian and Maori ensembles, led by CPIS affiliate Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center and the faculty Jane MOULIN and Rapata WIRI respectively, UHM Department of History. Discussing the agenda along with the Samoan ensemble, led by graduate behind this discourse, Chappell introduced a student Kuki TUIASOSOPO, finished the semester in historical perspective and talked about contributions December with a "pau hana'' performance for the to the destabilization of New Caledonia. He also university and community. Moulin's group also discussed the racist underpinnings of the . performed in October at the opening of the Africanization accusation and the false assumption Marquesas exhibition at the Mission Houses Museum that the problems that are cited are unique to Africa and, most recently, as part of the Polynesian Expo at and the Pacific. the UH Student Center. Sitiveni HALAPUA, PIDP Director at the East­ Jane Moulin will be in Fuzhou, China, in January West Center, introduced his talk, "A Theory of 2004, to deliver her paper "Cueing Up: Situating Talanoa: 'There Is No Such Thing as Storytelling Power on the Tahitian Stage" at a meeting of the about Nothing,'"on 10 November by reviewing the International Council for Tradit,ional Music. history of the development of his talanoa process as Katerina TEAIW A, assistant professor in Pacific an interactive and dialogic model for coming to a Islands studies, was in Wellington in December, both common understanding of an issue. In Fiji, the to consult with her other conveners of the "Culture process has been used in discussions of land issues, Moves!" conference in 2005 and to represent CPIS development of a national constitution, and "race" at "Developing and Rationalizing a Curriculum relations. He also explicated the underlying meaning Framework for Pacific Studies: A Workshop for of the term "talanoa," which refers to talk without Wellington Secondary Schools and Tertiary concealment and an absence of control on the part of Education Institutions," a workshop held at Victoria the listener, and discussed the importance of this to University of Wellington. the process. After the talk, he answered questions from the audience regarding his role in the talanoa David CHAPPELL, associate professor in the process and the transformations in thinking that have Department of History, will be on sabbatical during taken place as a result of the talks in Fiji. The talk was the January-May 2004 semester. He will work to cosponsored by PIDP. complete a draft of his book on radical politics in New Caledonia in the 1970s. 7 ·-·· -·q·~.. l!!!! !!!""'lllllllllllllllllllllllll!llJ!!!!!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!m..... llllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!lll!!!!!!!!!!!I

Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 Andrew ARNO, associate professor in the information on traditional Hawaiian social structure Department of Anthropology, is the author of and mythology. A key chapter on the Waiahole "Aesthetics, Intuition, and Reference in Fijian Ritual Ditch, which transports water drawn from streams and Communication: Modularity In and Out of aquifers on windward O'ahu to agricultural lands on Language,"in the latest issue of American the leeward side of the island, presents a case study of Anthropologist (Vol 105, No 4). how water laws are actually made. Miike is retired Economy professor James MAK' s latest book, Hawai'i State Director of Health. Tourism and the Economy: Understanding the UH Press books can be ordered through the Economics of Tourism, has just been published by Orders Department, University of Hawai'i Press, 2840 UH Press. Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822-1888. Website: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACTIVITIES Other Publications Congratulations and warm wishes to Portia Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving RICHMOND, who graduated with an MA in Pacific Polynesian Voyaging, by UHM emeritus professor of studies in August of io03. Richmond's thesis, anthropology Ben FINNEY, tells a story of how "Never the Twain Shall Meet? Causal Factors in Hawaiians and other Polynesians have struggled to Fijian-Indian Intermarriage," is based on research in revive deep-sea voyaging and how their experiences her homeland of Fiji and stems from her interest in are helping them face contemporary problems. It exploring the relationship between Fijians and also recounts the 1995 voyage of the Hawai'iloa and Indians on the ordinary social level. Given that five other canoes, from the Marquesas archipelago intermarriage is rare, but possibly increasing, in Fiji, north across the equator to Hawai'i. The Polynesian Richmond looked at the history of Indians in Fiji, crews of these reconstructions of ancient Polynesian statistics and patterns of intermarriage, and factors craft were sailing to commemorate the original influencing intermarriage. discovery of Hawai'i and to celebrate the revival of Irene CALIS (MA 1999) is in the PhD track of long-distance voyaging that had begun during the anthropology at the London School of Economics, 1960s. Published by Bishop Museum Press. 2004, where she is looking at the possibility of new 176 pages. ISBN 1581780249, paper, US$19.95; paradigms for anthropological research and their ISBN 1581780257, cloth, US$24.95. The book is application to a critique of the war on terrorism. available at bookstores and at the Bishop Museum gift shop. PUBLICATIONS, MOVING IMAGES, Making Our Place: Growing Up PI in New CDS Zealand, edited by Peggy FAIRBAIRN-DUNLOP and Gabrielle MAKISI, is a collection of stories that A v.ailable from UH Press highlights the great diversity of New Zealand's Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Pacific Islander community today. The stories Papua New Guinea, by Susanne KUEHLING, is an capture the pride in the PI identity and the joys of ethnography of Dobu, a Massim society of Papua achievements, alongside glimpses of the fragility of New Guinea. The book examines major aspects of the PI voice and feelings of dislocation. (The chapter exchange such as labor, mutual support, gifts of by University of Auckland Centre for Pacific Studies apology, revenge and punishment, kula exchange, Director Melani ANAE has been published on-line in and mortuary gifts. Focusing on exchange and its the November 2003 issue of Green Bananas, underlying ethics, the book explores the concept of http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/cpd//maoripac/ the person in the Dobu worldview. Kuehling is an greenbanana.html.) Published by Dunmore Press, assistant professor in anthropology in the Institut ftir website: http://www.dunmore.co.nz. 2003, 268 pp. Ethnologie at Heidelberg University. ISBN 86469-426-1, NZ$34.95. Water and the Law in Hawai'i, by Lawrence Ruahine: Mythic Women, by Ngahuia TE MIIKE, provides an intellectual and legal framework AWEKOTUKU, is a collection of traditional Maori for understanding both the past and future of stories retold from a contemporary feminist Hawai'i's freshwater resources. In placing Hawai'i perspective. The author is a professor in the Maori water law in the context of its historical development, and Psychology Research Unit at the University of Miike condenses an enormous amount of 8 Waikato. 2003, 152 pages. ISBN 1-877283-82-7, Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 paper, NZ$29.95 . It is available through Huia Press in available with new subscriptions. For information Aotearoa/New Zealand and can be ordered at send an email to [email protected]. http://www.huia.co.nz. The Hawaiian Journal of History (Volume 37, Forever in Paradise, by Apelu TIELU, is a novel 2003) contains articles on the 'ukulele, the statistical that deals with cultural, economic, and philosophical history of Hawai'i, sugar planters, female seminaries, aspects of social justice and the desire to both draw the attempted annexation of Hawai'i in 1868, on the past and move into the future. It tells the story Frederick Albert Edgecomb, Princess Abigail of Solomona Tuisamoa, the son of a Samoan chief, Kawananakoa, the Piko Club, and early trans-Pacific who leaves Samoa on a scholarship to study at a air routes to Hawai'i, as well as "Mo'olelo 0 university in New Zealand and returns to fulfill his Kawaihapai." The ·journal is available from the commitment to his homeland. Tielu, born in the Hawaiian Historical Society, email village of Saaga-Siumu in Samoa, is a research hhskaren@la va. net. economist working for the Australian government in The second issue of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Canberra. Published by Pandanus Books. 2003, 455 Contemporary Fiji is a special issue on the sugar pages. ISBN 1740760360, paper, US$19.95 , industry in Fiji, exploring issues such as productivity AUD$27.23. Available from the ANU Research and profitability, energy generation, survival School of Pacific and Asian Studies Bookshop at strategies, and the financial viability of the Fiji Sugar http://rspas.anu.edu.au/bookshop/ or the USP Book Corporation. For a limited time, the first and second Centre at http://uspbookcentre.com. issues of Fijian Studies are available on-line at http://www.fijianstudies.org/fias fijianstudies.htm, free Journals of charge. The latest Pacific Economic Bulletin (Volume 18, Number 2) is now available. It features economic Publications On-Line surveys of Samoa and Tuvalu, as well as articles on Oceania's Post-9111 Security Concerns: Common resuscitating the Solomon Islands economy, public Causes, Uncommon Approaches? by Eric SHIBUYA, sector management reform in Samoa, food demand an assistant professor with the Asia-Pacific Center for in urban and rural Samoa, the digital divide in the Security Studies, argues that though Pacific Island Pacific, and Fiji's economy. Selections from the countries share similar security concerns, they seek to journal, such as policy dialogues on policy transfer in address these challenges in different ways. According Vanuatu, the proposal for a Pacific economic and to Shibuya, interest in the region on the part of political community, and China's WTO accession are metropolitan powers has increased in the wake of also available as free-of-charge downloads from 9/11, and their willingness to respond to requests for http://peb.anu.edu.au/current-issue.htm. Beginning in assistance in the region has probably increased. 2004 with a special issue on Papua New Guinea, three Published by the Asia-Pacific Center for Security issues of the bulletin will be produced each year. Studies at http://www.apcss.org. The latest issue of Journal of the Polynesian Ka Ho'oilina/The Legacy, a journal that aims to Society (Volume 112, Number 2) contains articles on enhance the use and understanding of the Hawaiian cultural chronology in Mangareva, Gambier Islands, language by publishing archival Hawaiian language French Polynesia; evidence from recent radiocarbon materials, is now available on-line through dating; and fern consumption in Aotearoa/New universities that subscribe to Project MUSE. Some of Zealand and its Oceanic precedents. There is a the materials in the journal are Hawaiian ethnological shorter communication on feather cloaks in the notes from Bishop Museum, compiled by Mary Hawaiian Islands, as well as book reviews. Pukui; government documents; Hawaiian-language The Pacific Studies special issue Ethnographies of newspapers; and cultural materials, such as selected the May 2000 Fiji Coup (Vol 25, No 4), guest edited mete (songs and chants). The web address is by Susanna TRNKA, contains articles by Matt http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ka hooilina the legacy. TOMLINSON, Stephen C LEAVITT, Karen J BRISON, Green Bananas, edited by Nuhisifa WILLIAMS of Susanna Trnka, and Tui RAKUIT A, and an afterword the Centre for Professional Development and the by Brij V LAL. As a special limited offer, Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of complimentary copies of this special issue are Auckland, continues to present an interesting mix of interviews, profiles, and reports on Pacific Islander 9 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 activities in Auckland and elsewhere in New Zealand. Rotuma to work on Vilsoni Hereniko and Jeannette See the Pacific newsletter's website at Paulson HERENIKO's film The Land Has Eyes. http ://www2.auckland.ac.nz/cpd//maoripac/ Originally considered by Figueroa to be a work in greenbanana.html. progress, the documentary was well received by high school and university students and has therefore been Films and Videos released. 2002, color, 17 minutes, 1/2-inch VHS. Serek Sefa 'l (Sail Back), filmed on location at the Available from Juniroa Productions, email: College of Micronesia-Federated States of [email protected]. Micronesia, Chuuk Campus, features students and Land of the Morning Star: The Turbulent History community members welcoming a navigator from of West Papua recounts a history of colonial one of the outer islands in Chuuk as he arrives in his ambitions and fervent nationalism in the western half traditional canoe. He and his crew have made their of the island of New Guinea. It highlights the trip to help the campus's effort to revive Chuukese international politics of the region, particularly the traditional culture. Included in the video are the role of the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, comments of prominent community members talking Indonesia and the United Nations. 2003, color, 55 about Chuukese culture and the experience of minutes, 1/2-inch VHS. Directed by Mark WORTH welcoming the canoe. The video is available in either and available, with study guides, from Film Australia Chuukese or English. It was directed by former CPIS at http://www.filmaust.com.au; prices vary. staff member Michael OGDEN and produced by Ogden and CPIS alumnus Joakim PETER (MA Pushing Out to Sea: Creating an FSM Economy, 1994). 2003, color, 20 minutes, 112-inch VHS. For is the latest video offering from Micronesian Seminar ordering information contact Alex J RHOWUNIONG in its video series. It looks at the consumption at [email protected]. An instructional economy that has evolved in the Federated States of booklet for use in the classroom is planned. Micronesia and at Compact II and the steps that need to be taken to promote economic development. 2003, Grassroots: Ceux Qui Votent (Those Who Vote), color, 23 minutes, 1/2-inch VHS, US$10.00. by anthropologist Eric WITTERSHEIM, was filmed Available from Micronesian Seminar, website: during the general election in Vanuatu in May 2002. http://www.micsem.org. It follows the election campaign of Saby NA TONGA, a young, charismatic, and ambitious politician. CDs Natonga and his NCA party, which brings together a Vuku is the latest CD offering from the Oceania large number of Tanna migrants who live on the Centre for Arts and Culture at the University of the outskirt of Vila, are viewed by the two main political South Pacific. The music is written and performed by parties as a threat to democracy and the country's the ensemble Sound Waves, featuring Suliasi stability. 2003, color, 85 minutes, 1/2-inch VHS-PAL Vunibola TUILA WALA WA, Sevuloni LAQEKORO, and and DVD. In Bislama with French subtitles; an Sailasa Cakau TORA. The lyrics to one of the songs, English-language version will be available later this "Oceania," were inspired by Epeli HAU'OFA's essay year. For information, contact Wittersheim at "Our Sea of Islands." US$16.00. For ordering [email protected]. information, contact the Oceania Centre at The Land Has Teeth, by Honolulu filmmaker [email protected] or the USP Book Centre at Esther FIGUEROA, features interviews with Rotuman [email protected]. scholar Elisapeti INIA, Rotuman re_turned resident Voi MUAROR, Fijian District Office Luke MOROIV ALU, CONFERENCES Rotuman academic and filmmaker Vilsoni HERENIKO, and Rotuman high school students Pacific Islands Workshop Sapeta T AITO and Emily ERASITO. The The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific at the documentary explores the Rotuman concepts of Australian National University, in conjunction with justice and conflict resolution. Encapsulated in the the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, invites Rotuman saying "the land has eyes and the land has graduate students and recent doctoral graduates in teeth" is the concept that the natural and the humanities and social science to participate in a supernatural worlds are related and linked through Pacific Islands workshop during Asia Pacific Week, the land and the ancestors. Figueroa taped footage 1-7 February 2004. The workshop is designed to for The Land Has Teeth in 2001, when she was in 10 showcase the work of younger scholars of the Pacific Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 and will include presentations by prominent Pacific incorporate gender diversity, and include junior as scholars, journalists, and regional dignitaries. Limited well as senior scholars. A conference website will be funds may be available to help defray travel costs. on-line in January 2004. Inquiries and abstracts should be sent to David HEGARTY, Convenor of the Centre for the Contem­ History and Island Churches of the Pacific porary Pacific, [email protected]) or "History and the Island Churches of the Pacific in Michael MORGAN ([email protected]). the 20'h Century" is the title for a conference to be held at the Pacific Theological College, in Suva, Fiji, Colonialism and Its Aftermath 20-22 October 2004. In anticipation of the 40'h "Colonialism and Its Aftermath" is an birthday of the college on 2 March 2005, the interdisciplinary conference to be held 23-25 June conference organizers are inviting papers dealing 2004 at the University of Tasmania, in Hobart, with the historiography of Island churches and the Australia. Topics for presentations include the learning and teaching of Christianity in the 20'h postcolonial aftermath, imperial networks of century. Titles and abstracts of presentations should influence, colonial anthropology, ecology and be sent by 31 March 2004 to Reverend Dr Kambati environment, governance, human trafficking, heritage URIAM at [email protected]. The organizing studies, colonial cities and postcolonial architecture, committee includes Reverend Tevita BANIV ANDA, Dr literary representations, migration and diaspora, and Morgan TUIMALEALIIFANO, Reverend Dr Michael postcolonial cultural studies. The conference chair is PRESS, and Dr David HILLIARD. Anna JOHNSTON, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania. For International Congress for the Historical Sciences information, see http://www.leishman­ The twentieth International Congress for the associates.eom.au/colonialism. Historical Sciences, to be held in Sydney, Australia, at the University of New South Wales, 3-9 July 2005, Political and Electoral Systems in the Pacific includes a session on images of the Pacific, organized "Political Culture, Representation, and Electoral by Frederic ANGLEVIEL and Robert ALDRICH. The Systems in the Pacific" will be held 10-12 July 2004 website is http://www.cishsydney2005.org. at the University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus, in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The organizers, the Conferences Announced in Previous Newsletters Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Governance • The 2004 annual ASAO (Association for Social and Development, University of the South Pacific, Anthropology in Oceania) meeting will be held and the Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University in Salem, Massachusetts, 24-28 February. For of Wellington, hope to attract scholars specializing in information see the ASAO website at Pacific electoral institutions, practitioners engaged in http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/asao/pacific/hawaiki. electoral administration, and people concerned about html. the politics of representation in the Pacific. Limited • The Society for Cultural Anthropology spring funding for travel and accommodation may be meeting, "Sovereignty," wtll be held in Portland, available. Proposals of 250-300 words should be sent Oregon, 30 April-1 May 2004. The website is to [email protected] by 15 March 2004. http://www. aaanet. org/ sea/meetings/ sca/2004/intro. Informal inquiries may be emailed to either htm. Fraenkel [email protected] or [email protected]. • "Indigenous Knowledges: Transforming the Academy," will be held 27-29 May 2004 at Oceanic Conference on International Studies Pennsylvania State University. The cochairs are The first "Oceanic Conference on International Ladislaus SEMALI, email: lms [email protected]; and Studies," to be held 14-16 July 2004 at the Audrey MARETZKI, email: [email protected]. Australian National University in Canberra, is • The 9'h Festival of Pacific Arts will be held in the designed to bring together the scholars in Australia, Republic of Palau, 22-31 July 2004. For New Zealand, and the Pacific who are studying and information, see the website at teaching international relations and global politics. http://www.festival-pacific-arts.org/. Proposals should be emailed to Mary-Louise HICKEY at [email protected] by 2 February • The 16'h Pacific History Association Conference, 2004. Preference will be given to panels that bring "Pacific History: Assessments and Prospects," together scholars from different institutions, will be held in Noumea, New Caledonia, 5-10 11 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 2003 December 2004. Send inquiries to the secretary email to [email protected] or of the PHA conference committee, Frederic [email protected]. call (671) 735-2728/2726, ANGLEVIEL, at BP 4477, Noumea 98845, New or fax (671) 734-0012. The deadline for applications Caledonia; email: [email protected]. for all positions is 15 March 2004. • A multidisciplinary conference on Germany in Anthropology Position at UH-West O'ahu the South Pacific is being planned for spring University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu is advertising a 2005. For more information, contact Miriam position for an instructor in anthropology with KAHN at [email protected]. expertise in Pacific Islands or Filipino cultures. For information see the UHWO website at BULLETIN BOARD http://www.uhwo.hawaii.edu/. The application deadline is 21 February 2004. Contemporary Pacific Art in New York City An exhibition of contemporary art from the Pacific PIC Scholarship Fund 2004 entitled "Paradise Now?" will be on display in New The Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) York City at the Asia S9ciety and Museum, from Scholarship Fund seeks to encourage and support 18 February to 19 May 2004. For more information, Pacific Islanders who are pursuing certificates and see the website at http://www.AsiaSociety.org. degrees in media or communications. Awards are also available for travel to workshops and other English Positions at University of Guam training venues. Annual awards, which are University of Guam is advertising a number of open nonrenewable, range up to $5 ,000. Applicants must positions in the Department of English, including be citizens, legal permanent residents, or nationals of three positions to teach composition/rhetoric and the United States or its territories, but they need not literature at the assistant or associate rank, a position be Pacific Islanders. For an application, see the PIC to teach developmental English at the instructor rank, website at http://www.piccom.org or contact Gus and a position for a visiting scholar in COBB-ADAMS at [email protected]. The composition/rhetoric and/or literature, rank open. The deadline for applications is 5 March 2004. visiting position is a one- or two-year limited-term, non-tenure track appointment. All applications must be submitted by regular mail (not email). For information on application requirements, send an

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