Pacific News from Manoa

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

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CONTESTED GROUND CONFERENCE HELD Over two hundred people attended the center's twentieth annual conference in December, "Contested Ground: Knowledge and Power in Pacific Islands Studies." They heard a range of perspectives on issues affecting the changing nature of Pacific Islands studies and the structure and research and teaching agendas of Pacific Islands studies programs. Professor Ranginui WALKER, Head of Maori Studies, University of Auckland, got the conference off to a strong start with his keynote address, "Contestations of Power and Knowledge in the Politics of Culture," and the first day of the conference closed with a reception and entertainment provided by the Center Lilikalii Kame 'eleihiwa, UH Center for Hawaiian for Hawaiian Studies. Studies. and Ranginui Walker, Head of Maori Studies, Conference goers missed the presence of Malama University ofAuckland , and keynote speaker at the Contested MELEISEA and David GEGEO, who were forced to Ground conference in December 1995. cancel at the last minute, but welcomed the addition of Vilsoni HERENIKO who spoke on "Indigenous HISTORY, CULTURE, AND Knowledge and Academic Imperialism." Terence WESLEY -SMITH, conference convenor, POWER IN THE PACIFIC and Vilsoni Hereniko are working on an edited JULY 1996 CONFERENCE volume of papers from the conference. Enclosed with this newsletter is a registration flyer for the joint Eleventh Pacific History Association Conference and Twenty-First Annual UH Center for Pacific Islands Studies Conference on "History, Culture, and Power in the Pacific," 9-13 July 1996, at the U Diversity of Hawai 'i at Hilo. Keynote speakers for the conference are Dr Lilikala KAME'ELEIHIW A, associate professor in the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai 'i at Manoa, and Professor Greg DENING, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, University of Melbourne. The following individuals have agreed to chair sessions around the indicated themes. Anyone wishing to join one of these panels should get in touch with the organizer by 15 April. Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995 Reconceptualizing History in the Pacific Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Dr Kanalu G Terry YOUNG Australian National University Center for Hawaiian Studies GPO Box 4 University of Hawai 'i at Manoa, Canberra, ACT, 0200 Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-2383 Australia ph: (808) 956-6825; fax: (808) 956-9253 ph: 61-6-249-5111; fax : 61-6-249-5525; email: brijlal @coombs.anu.edu.au Local Histories and Vernacular Sources Dr Karen NERO Asserting Hawaiian Identity Department of Anthropology Mr Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole OSORIO University of Auckland Center for Hawaiian Studies Private Bag 92019 University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Auckland, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawai 'i 96922-2383 ph: 64-9-373-7599, ext. 5316 ph: (808) 956-6825; fax: (808) 956-9253 fax: 64-9-373-7441 email: kin@ antnov 1. auckland. a c. nz Public Histories and History's Publics in the Pacific Ms Fermina Brei MURRAY Colonialism's Cultures 442 Danbury Court Dr Grant MCCALL Goleta, California 93117 PO Box 1 ph: 805-967-7189 Centre for Pacific Studies University of New South Wales Diasporas and Nationhood Kensington, New South Wales, 2033 Dr David A. CHAPPELL Australia Department of History ph: 61-2-385-3386; fax: 61-2-313-6337 University of Hawai 'i at Manoa, email: g.mccall @unsw.edu.au Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-2383 ph: 808-956-7674; fax: 808-956-9600 Gender Relations in Colonial Pasts and Decolonizing Presents Postcolonialism and the Native in the Colonized Ms Teresia TEAIW A Pacific Box 3720 Dr Vicente DIAZ Samabula, Suva, Fiji Humanistic Studies ph: 679-313-900 (USP) University of Guam fax: 679-301-305 (USP) UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923 email: [email protected] ph: 671-734-9402; fax: 671-734-7403 email: [email protected] Sovereignty and Decolonization and Dr Brij V LAL Dr Roger MAAKA Division of Pacific and Asian History Director, Maori Studies Department University of Canterbury Published by Private Bag 4800 The Center for PacijW 1 1/mds :mdle Christchurch, New Zealand ph: 64-3-364-2595; fax: 64-3-364-2999 chbol of Hawailim, Asian and Pacific Studits email: r .maaka@ csc.canterbury. ac.nz University of H(ltfai*i aJ Manoa 1890 Eo t- Wet Road Christianity and Religious Transitions Honolulu, HI 96822 a Dr Heinz SCHUTIE Phone: ( 08) 956-7700 5 Bd de Port Royal Paris, France Fax: (808) 956-7053 75013 email: ctislu:[email protected]. Imaging, Representation, and Photography Dr Max QUANCHI Robert C. Kistet Director Queensland University of Technology Letitia Hlc..kson, Editor Carseldine Campus, Beams Road PO Box 284 Items in this newsletter may be freely reprinted. Zillmere 4034 Queensland, Australia cknowledgmenJ of the source would be ph: 61-7-864-4563; fax: 61-7-864-4719; appreciaJed. To receive the new utter ekctronwally email: [email protected] contact the ediJor at the email addre s above. ~------2 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995 Theaters of Encounter The East-West Center's Web page, at Dr Michael GOLDSMITH http://www.ewc.hawaii.edu/, includes information on Dept. of Political Science and Public Policy programs, scholarships, and fellowships, and events at University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 the center, and information on visitor housing and Hamilton, New Zealand housing rates at its three on-campus residence halls. ph: 64-7-856-2889, x8384 Individuals with an academic affiliation may now fax: 64-7-856-2158; make reservations directly by contacting East-West email: [email protected] Center Housing Office, 1777 East-West Road, Law and Custom in Micronesia Honolulu, HI 96848. Tel: (808) 944-7805; fax: Mr Daniel HALL (808) 944-7790; e-mail: [email protected]. Criminal Justice and Legal Studies University of Central Florida - PACIFIC ISLANDERS HONOR Brevard Area Campus 1519 Clearlake Road HERENIKO Cocoa, Florida 32922 The Rotuman Association of Hawai 'i, Oahu, the ph: (407) 631-5440 Center for Pacific Islands Studies, the University of Pacific Libraries: Issues and Developments Hawai'i Press, and the East-West Center joined forces Dr Karen PEACOCK on 7 October 1995 to honor center faculty member Pacific Curator Vilsoni HERENIKO at the launching of his book Hamilton Library Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma. University of Hawai 'i at Manoa Lilikala KAME 'ELEIHIW A, Center for Hawaiian Honolulu, Hawai 'i 96822 ph: (808) 956-2851; fax: (808) 956-5968 Studies, emceed the program, which included the email: [email protected] presentation of gifts and feast foods to Hereniko by members of the Rotuman and Tongan communities, PACIFIC COLLECTION BEQUEST dancing of the tautoga by Hereniko and members of the Rotuman community, a scene from Hereniko's The Pacific Collection at the University of Hawai 'i latest play, Last Virgin in Paradise, music by Fijian Library has received nearly $13,000 from the estate singer Lagani RABUKA WAQA, performance of the of the late Pacific Curator Emerita, R Renee HEYUM, Tongan tauoluga, and dancing by students in the for which Pacific scholars and the university Pan-Pacific Club. community are extremely grateful. The Pacific Collection staff will be undertaking a fund-raising campaign in the near future, using Renee's gift as the generous beginning of their efforts.

MORE PACIFIC ISLANDS WEB SITES IN HAWAI'I The Pacific Business Center at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa now has a Web site that includes an Island Marketplace page where center clients can display photographs of their products or services along with a description and contact information. The address is http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/PBCP/. Nation of Hawai'i, a Native Hawaiian sovereignty group, has a Web site at http://www.hawaii-nation.org/ to "provide information regarding restoration of Hawaiian independence, along with cultural perspectives from the people of Hawai 'i." Included Vilsoni Hereniko, second from left, and members oftlze on the page are background on the independence Rotuman community dance at his book launching. issue, policy statements, historical information, news articles, and special features. 3 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995

NEWS IN BRIEF Amelia PASI, BA in History Education from The USIA Funds Five More Pacific Islands Students Church College of Hawai 'i (now known as Brigham Five more Pacific Islands students have begun their Young University-Hawai'i Campus). studies at UH Hilo on a United States Information Agency grant that is being administered by the Alumnus Alexander J DE VOOGT (MA 1993), Pacific Islands Development Program at the East­ who wrote his thesis on "Non-Alphabetic Writing West Center. The students are: Rosia T AVITA and Systems in the Pacific Islands," returned to the Harriet KIRKPATRICK (both with interests in national Netherlands and Leiden University in 1993 to resource management) from Western Samoa; Mere contine his studies. His doctoral thesis at Leiden, TUKIRI (journalism) from Fiji; Havila SAAFI Limits of the Mind: Toward a Characterisation of (business administration) from Tonga; and Kinaii Bao Mastership," was recently published by The KAIRO (journalism) from Kiribati. Research School CNWS of Leiden University. Limits These students, who begin their studies in January of the Mind is a psychological study of mastership of 1996, join the first round of students on the grant, Bao, a board game of East Africa, as well as a who began their studies in August. All of the students description of the game as played in Zanzibar and a are funded for the duration of their baccalaureate history of its masters. degree studies. CENTER VISITORS AND PEACESAT Project Collection ACTIVITIES The PEACESAT Project Collection has been selected for inclusion in the National Public Broadcasting LEI'ATAUA Vaiao and Fay ALA'ILIMA from Archives at the University of Maryland at College Western Samoa were in residence at the center during Park. PEACESAT (Pan Pacific Education and December and January, and Fay will continue to be Communications Experiments by Satellite) was at the center through the first quarter of 1996. They begun in 1969 by John BYSTROM, Professor of are on a Fulbright Fellowship to take a deeper look at Communication at the University of Hawai 'i at the structure and procedures of the Samoan pre­ Manoa, and continues to be headquartered at the European chiefdom and the implications for the university, linking a wide variety of educational and contemporary Samoan chiefly system. As part of the public service institutions and organizations located grant they also visited the Australian National in twenty-one Pacific Island entities. University, the Mitchell Library, the University of Inquiries about research in the archives may be Auckland, and the Victoria University of Wellington, directed to Tom CONNORS, Curator, NPB Archives, as well as the Cook Islands, Tonga, and Tahiti. Hornbake Library, University of Maryland at College Richard HERR, University of Tasmania, visited the Park, College Park, MD 20742; tel (301) 405-9255. center in December. He was in Honolulu doing research on regional fisheries issues. STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS Robert C KISTE completed his six-month The center is pleased to welcome four new students sabbatical at the end of December and officially into the MA program for Spring 1996: returned to the center on 1 January. In October he Nalani "Aina" BADUA, BS in Early Childhood attended the 1995 South Pacific Forum Meeting in Education from Chaminade University; Madang as part of the delegation from the Pacific Ramona "Mona" BERNARDINO, Associate in Arts Islands Development Program. with Honors, University of Hawai 'i at Manoa, Terence WESLEY -SMITH traveled to Noumea in currently pursuing a JD at the William S Richardson October for the Thirty-Fifth South Pacific School of Law as well as an MA in Pacific Islands Conference as an observer from the Center for Studies; Pacific Islands Studies and also attended a Beverly CHUT ARO, graduate of Heidelberg conference on mining and mineral resource policy College and more recently a GED English instructor issues at the Australian National University. in the Republic of the Marshall Islands;

4 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995 "Romanticizing Colonialism: Power and Pleasure OCCASIONAL SEMINARS in Jane Campion's The Piano," by Reshela DUPUIS; and Stewart FIRTH, Professor Politics at Macquarie University and the author of a number of studies on "The Dread Taboo, Human Sacrifice, and Pearl the international history of the Pacific, including Harbor," byRD K HERMAN. Nuclear Playground, gave a paper on Sovereignty In addition, this issue includes a dialogue piece by and Decolonization in the Pacific Islands on 3 Jane MOULIN, titled "What's Mine Is Yours? Cultural October. In the paper he looked at the state of Borrowing in a Pacific Context"; political reviews for decolonization in the Pacific Islands in the mid- Micronesia and Polynesia for 1994-1995; a 1990s and commented on the goals and strategies of resources article on the New Zealand and Pacific ongoing movements. Collection at the University of Auckland, by Stephen Robert C KISTE, center director, presented a INNES; and book reviews. report on the 1995 South Pacific Forum meeting, in which he reviewed the issues and actions of the OTHER NEW PUBLICATIONS meeting in Madang and drew some comparisons with Paula BROWN's Beyond a Mountain Valley: The the conferences of the South Pacific Commission. Simbu of Papua New Guinea includes personal Stephen WILD, Research Fellow in accounts of Simbu collected over thirty years as well Ethnomusicology and the Arts at the Australian as material from letters, diaries, and government Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reports that provide a compelling view of Simbu Studies in Canberra, visited the University of Hawai 'i involvement with other island peoples, missionaries, at the invitation of the Ethnomusicology Program, government officials, business people, and tourists. Department of Music, and gave a seminar on 16 Brown also provides a critique of historical October on the history, structure, and research and anthropology over the past decade, as well as a training practices and priorities of AIATSIS. discussion of cohorts, generations, and life-course Treaty Claims in New Zealand: Frustration, and a that may serve as a model for students of historical Possible Way Forward was the title of Alan WARD's and cultural change in tribal societies; US$36, 312 seminar on 2 November. Professor Ward, who has pp, ISBN 0-8248-170 1-X. Order from Orders been consultant historian to the W aitangi Tribunal Department, University of Hawai 'i Press, 2840 since 1987, reviewed the work of the Tribunal and Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. described the current strategies of the parties and Three other books are also new from University how these strategies have evolved, as well as the of Hawai 'i Press. Geiseler's Easter Island Report: An implications for the future work of the Tribunal. I 880s Anthropological Account, translated by Professor Ward was on his way to Toronto as part of WilliamS AYERS and Gabriella SAYERS, provides his ongoing research on the process of devolving observations of island life and archaeological judicial authority to First Peoples. remains from one of the earliest ethnological Terence WESLEY -SMITH, associate professor at collecting expeditions; paper, US$29, 224 pp, ISBN the center, gave a report on 22 November on the 0-8248-155 5-6, distributed for the Social Science Thirty-Fifth South Pacific Conference. In his Research Institute, University of Hawai 'i. Healing presentation, titled Back to Square One?, he looked Practices in the South Pacific, edited by Claire at political maneuvering at the Noumea meeting and PARSONS and distributed for Institute for Polynesian the issues faced by leaders of island nations. Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i Campus, is new in paperback; US$19, 266 pp, ISBN 0- THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC 939154-56-0. Tapa in Tonga, by Wendy ARBEIT, distributed for Palm Frond Productions, provides text The spring 1996 issue of The Contemporary and pictures on the use, decoration, and techniques Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs is now available. of production of tapa in Tonga; paper, US$9.95, 32 It features the following articles: pp, ISBN 0-8248-1727-3. "Chiefly Models in Papua New Guinea," by Migrants and Their Remittances: Results of a Richard SCAGLION; Household Survey of Tongans and Western Samoans "Between Two Laws: Tenure Regimes in the Pearl in Sydney, by Richard P C BROWN and Adrian Islands," by Moshe RAPAPORT; 5 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995 WALKER, has been published as Pacific Studies faculty in disciplines such as history, sociology, and Monograph 17 by University of New South Wales, English in order to develop multidisciplinary courses Centre for South Pacific Studies; $A 10 in Australia, in Samoan studies. New Zealand, and the South Pacific, US$10 A new campus for the National University is to be elsewhere; 92 pp, ISBN 0-7334-0420-0. Order from built, including an extension of the university's Centre for South Pacific Studies, UNSW, Sydney library resources, and the university is considering 2052, Australia. establishing an Institute of Samoan Studies. The Palau National Code, Annotated, containing The closing date for applications is 15 March the statutory laws of Palau, is now available. The two­ 1996. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and volume set contains the Constitution and statutes of the names , addresses and fax numbers of three Palau with annotations, case citations, tables, academic referees, should be sent to the Registrar, appendixes, and an index. The price is US$375 from National University of Samoa, PO Box 5768, Apia, Orakiruu Corporation, PO Box 1484, Koror, Palau, Western Samoa. tel/fax ( 680) 488-315 3. The Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 29, World Indigenous Peoples Conference includes articles on Hawaiian settlement in British The Fourth Tri-Annual World Indigenous Peoples Columbia; early Maui plantations; US foreign policy Conference on Education, organized and hosted by and Hawai'i, 1893-1895; and Fritz Hart and the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Honolulu Symphony; as well as notes and queries, Peoples from throughout the United States is and book reviews. The journal is published by the scheduled for 15-22 June 1996 in Albuquerque, New Hawaiian Historical Society. Mexico. The conference workshops cover a wide range of topics, including elders as bearers of The latest issue of Umaniddt: A Journal of the traditional knowledge and culture; indigenous and Humanities (Vol 3, No 1, November 1995) has as its western scientific traditions; designing culturally theme, Commonwealth-Twenty Years Later, with appropriate curricula; support services for featured articles on the Commonwealth of the Native/First Nations students; education for Native Northern Marianas as well as creative writing and self-determination; and governance, funding and articles on other areas of Micronesia. Subscriptions at management of indigenous institutions. $5.00 an issue are available from Editor, Umaniddt, Proposals for workshops, panels, and speakers Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, PO Box 745, Saipan, MP should include the title, length of session, names of 96950. Fax (670) 235-3002; e-mail presenters, and brief descriptions of the topic. [email protected]. Workshop proposals must be submitted by 15 March BULLETIN BOARD to: 1996 WIPC:E, Galles Building, 1601 Central Northeast, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Conference Position Opening at National University of Samoa details can also be obtained at this address. Applications are invited for the post of Professor and Information on the conference is also available on Head of the Department of Samoan Studies at the the Web at: National University of Samoa. The university's http://www.arc.unm.edu/community/wipc_e/wipc_e.ht development plan gives priority to the development ml. of a center of excellence in Samoan studies that will meet the standards of both fa' a Samoa and World Congress on Coastal and Marine Tourism international scholarship. The university has among The 1996 World Congress on Coastal and Marine its goals, to retrieve, analyze, maintain, advance and Tourism: Experiences in Management and disseminate knowledge of Samoa, the Samoan Development, 19-22 June 1996 in Honolulu, will language, and Samoan culture, including music, bring together government representatives, dance, and material, social, and technical culture. community leaders, and scientists to discuss strategies The appointee is required to have appropriate for sustainable tourism development in coastal academic qualifications in the area of Samoan locales. For information, contact CMT96 c/o Oregon language and culture, and as head of the Department Sea Grant, Oregon State University, 500 of Samoan Studies will be required to organize Administrative Services, Corvallis, OR 97331-2131, courses in Samoan language and culture. The USA. Tel: (541) 737-5130; fax: (541) 737-2392. appointee will also be expected to collaborate with 6 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995 CMT96 runs concurrently with the Seventh including production, post-production, marketing, Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology, and distribution. The types of programs include PACON 96, which will be held in Honolulu, 17-22 documentaries, docu-dramas, children's June. The theme of PACON 96 is Solutions for the programming and animation. Pacific Century, and the meeting will have a technical Seven copies of each proposal must be received in program dealing with topics from ocean remote the PIC office by 30 April 1996. For information sensing to oceanography to ecotourism and marine and an application form, contact Pacific Islanders in bioremediation. For information, contact PACON Communications, 1221 Kapi'olani Boulevard, Suite International. Tel: (808) 956-6163; fax (808) 956- 6A-4, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96814. Tel (808) 591- 2580; e-mail: [email protected]. 0059; fax (808) 591-1114; e-mail piccom @elele.peacesat.hawaii.edu. Third Conference of European Society for Oceanists Third Annual Pacific Island Images Film Festival The European Society for Oceanists (ESO) has Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC) announces issued a call for papers for its third conference, a call for entries for its 1996 film festival, to be held Pacific Peoples in the Pacific Century: Society, in Guam, American Samoa, and Hawai 'i. All genres Culture and Nature, which will be held in and lengths of work produced by indigenous Pacific Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 December 1996. Islander producers and directors are welcome. Proposed working sessions will address the following Formats: 16mm, 35mm, 3/4" and 1/2" NTSC and topics: local perspectives on environment and PAL VHS. There is no entry fee. The deadline is resources; epistemologies of nature; resource 30 April 1996. For information, call or write PIC at exploitation and political-environmental activism; the address in the preceding notice. reaction, resistance, and creative agency; local economic history; archaeology and prehistoric Pacific Islanders in Communication Writing transformation; globalization and a changing world Competition order; a new Pacific in "The Pacific Century"; media Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC) is and material culture; and people and rainforest: sponsoring its first annual writing competition with human-forest interaction. the opportunity for winners' work to be developed Papers are invited on any of these ten topics. into a finished television piece. There will also be a Short abstracts of papers should be submitted by separate high school competitive section. Work 1 September 1996, preferably by e-mail. All submitted may be in the form of a short story, correspondence should be sent to Bente WOLFF, screenplay, or tape. The deadline is 1 June 1996, and Institute of Anthropology, University of there is no entry fee. For complete application Copenhagen, Frederiksholms Kanal 4, DK-1220 guidelines, contact Pacific Islanders in Copenhagen K, Denmark; fax 45 35323456, tel 45 Communications, 1221 Kapi'olani Boulevard, Suite 33473233; e-mail [email protected]. 6A-4, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96814. Tel (808) 591- 0059; fax (808) 591-1114; e-mail 1996 Television Program Grants piccom @elele. peacesat.hawaii.edu. Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) announces its 1996 Television Program Grant Open Text on Pacific Geography Call for the development of programs, produced by Chapter contributions are being solicited for an and about the indigenous peoples of the Pacific edited textbook for university-level Pacific Islands Islands, for US national public television, Applicants geography courses, to be published by Bess Press. must be independent producers, non-profit The focus will be on issues of continuity and change. organizations, or public television stations. The topics that the editor seeks manuscripts on Individuals must be US citizens, permanent resident include climate, ocean studies, agriculture, aliens, or aliens authorized by the Immigration and demography, urbanization, land and lagoon tenure Naturalization Service to work in the United States. regimes, belief systems, language, law, and art. Guidelines for contributors are available from Moshe The open grant call is made possible through RAPAPORT, Department of Geography, University of funds provided by the Corporation for Public Hawai 'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; e-mail: Broadcasting. Grants up to $10,000 are available for [email protected]; fax: (808) 956-3512. research, development, and scripting. Grants up to $50,000 are available for works-in-progress, 7 Pacific News from Manoa October-December 1995

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