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

FEATURING PARADISE: and entertainment by singers and a number of well­ THE PACIFIC IN FILM known halaus. Throughout the day, Board of Regent Emerita Mrs Gladys 'Ainoa BRANDT was honored "Featuring Paradise: Representations of the Pacific in for her vision and for the encouragement that Film" is the title of the center's annual conference, enabled Hawaiians to fulfill their dream of a building which will be held in Honolulu, 11-13 November of their own on the Manoa campus: a building which, 1997. Planned to coincide with the Hawai'i she said, "with its gracious, yet resolute, union with International Film Festival, this academic conference the land about it, symbolizes the very essence of will address how the Pacific and Pacific Islanders traditional Hawaiian culture." have been portrayed in feature film for the past The building, designed by the award-winning hundred years. Concerned primarily with a historical architectural firm of Kauahikakua and Chun, overview and general patterns rather than isolated incorporates traditional Hawaiian architectural motifs, and individual films, the five panels planned for the including a courtyard and entryway to accommodate conference will focus on the themes of paradise, traditional protocol for visiting dignitaries and guests, gender, race and class, violence, and indigenous many of whom traveled from as far away as New filmmaking. Screenings of significant films will be a Zealand Aotearoa, British Columbia, Rapa Nui, and part of the conference. the US mainland for the opening ceremonies. HAWAIIAN STUDIES BUILDING OFFICIALLY OPEN Beautiful skies prevailed for the long-awaited official opening of the University of Hawai 'i at Manoa's Center for Hawaiian Studies building. The opening, on 18 January, began with a kahea and blessing procession led by Kumu John LAKE, a program featuring opening remarks by dignitaries and a review of the history of Hawaiian Studies at UH Manoa by Director Haunani-Kay TRASK, and a reception. The evening celebrations featured a Ui' au

Central courtyard of new Hawaiian Studies complex.

PAN-PACIFIC CLUB HOLDS EXHIBITION The East-West Center's Pan-Pacific Club members intermingled with the UH Manoa-East-West Center community and introduced community members to a wide range of Pacific Islands activities and crafts at --

Pacific News from Manoa January-March 1997 a cultural exhibition on 1 February. The day-long activities included dances, coconut-husking, story­ telling around the bowl, 'umu-making demonstrations, singing, videos, and an impressive and delicious array of unique island delicacies from kokoda to pork steamed in bamboo. The exhibition, part of the EWC's Center-Wide Education Council's program aimed at enhancing cultural interaction and understanding among members of the center's community, was opened by Pan-Pacific Club's president, William WIGMORE. Also on the executive committee and active in the planning for the event were Phyllis MAIKE-GANILEO, Mahendra REDDY, anct Kristine OH. The formal program ended with dancing in the late afternoon, but in true Islands fashion, the music and kava drinking went on into the wee hours of the morning.

CPIS WELCOMES NEW STUDENT The center is pleased to have Brandon BRECKENRIDGE as a student in the MA program. Brandon began taking classes with the fall 1996 entering students, but formally entered the program Phyllis Maike-Ganileo stands ready to help with the food at in spring 1997. From Bethesda, Maryland, he the Pan-Pacific Cultural Exhibition. graduated from Pacific Union College with a BS and a major in business administration. He entered the MA program after having taught eighth grade on NEWS IN BRIEF Yap and having spent a summer working in the US Sia Figiel Wins Literary Prize State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Sia FIGIEL's Where We Once Belonged has won the Affairs. His interests involve the structuring of the Best First Book category of the Southeast Asia and Compact of Free Association between the Federated South Pacific Region Commonwealth Writer's Prize. States of Micronesia and the United States. Figiel is a poet and novelist from Western Samoa. She and the other regional winners will attend the Festival of Commonwealth Literature to be held in London between 27 April and 6 May. Where We Once Belonged is published by Pasifika Press. Figiel is also the author of The Girl in the Moon Circle, published by the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. Pacific News from Minoa January-March 1997 ESCAP Pacific Operation Center in Vanuatu, and (Bard College), Phyllis Fros (Center for Teaching Dr Fred SEVELE, Managing Director of Primary and Learning), Leilani Holmes (Grossmont College), Produce Export Limited in Tonga. PIDP has seen its Irena Levy (Kapi 'olani Community College), and resources reduced over the past couple of years as a Elena Tajima-Creef (Wellesley College). consequence of a decrease in funding for the In addition to examining representations of the East-West Center as a whole. Pacific in ethnography, literature, and film, the seminar will address broader issues related to cultural New UH Sea Grant Agents in Palau and Pohnpei diversity and efforts to incorporate international Kevin POLLO!, a native Palauan and one of the first perspectives in college curricula. participants in the Sea Grant Pacific Program's Micronesia & American Samoa Student Internship Operation Books: A PREL Initiative project (MASSIP) is the new extension agent for Sea Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has Grant's Pacific Program. The project addresses the joined forces with Hawai 'i schools, Continental need for natural resource management in the US­ Micronesia Airlines, and the metropolitan rotary affiliated Pacific Islands entities. Polloi worked with Club of Honolulu to collect reading materials in Palau's Marine Resources Division as an intern and Hawai'i and the US mainland for school libraries in graduated from UH Hilo, where he studied biology the Pacific. School children in Yap, Federated States with an emphasis on marine sciences and of Micronesia, will be the first beneficiaries of this conservation. He plans to work with local agencies program. The project targets specific needs of rural and businesses to develop environmental education schools and encourages continuing cultural programs that promote conservation biology, exchange and contact among the participating sustainable economic development, and marine schools. Books for the initial shipment were donated resource management techniques. by Pu 'uhale Elementary School in Honolulu. Simon ELLIS is the new Pacific Regional Aquaculture Extension Agent stationed in Pohnpei. CENTER VISITORS Originally from Lincolnshire, England, he has a graduate degree in fisheries and aquaculture at Francis X HEZEL, SJ, from the Micronesian Seminar Lousiana State University. From his home base at the in Pohnpei visited the center in early January. Hezel College of Micronesia Land Grant office in Pohnpei, was on his way to Washington, DC, where he had Ellis will travel throughout the US-affiliated entities been invited to serve on a committee convened by to conduct workshops and provide technical the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of assistance to Islanders wishing to begin or expand Sciences. The committee is to draw up a set of aquaculture-related businesses. guidelines for medical services planning in the US­ affiliated Pacific Islands entities. NEH Summer Seminar Participants Selected Aurelia E BREAZEALE, Deputy Assistant The joint East-West Center-UH Center for Pacific Secretary of State for East Asia' and the Pacific, called Islands Studies National Endowment for the briefly at the center on 22 January on her way to Fiji Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, and other destinations in the Pacific. While in "The Politics of Representation: Ethnography, Jionolulu, she discussed recent developments in the Literature, and Film in the Pacific Islands," has region. announced its participants list. Participating in the Max QUANCHI, of the Department of History, seminar from 16 June-25 July 1997 will be: Carolyn Queensland Institute of Technology, visited the Anderson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), center on 28 January on his way to Micronesia to Virginia daCosta (California State University, Long meet with teachers and department of education Beach), Steve Derne (State University of New York, personnel as part of his Teaching the Pacific Forum Geneseo), Ramona Fernandez (Sacramento City project. He discussed pre-collegiate and collegiate College), Sally Graham (Palau Community College), education initiatives focusing on the Pacific and also Marsha Kinder (University of Southern California, met with people at PREL (Pacific Resources for University Park), Christine Loflin (Grinnell College), Education and Learning) and BYU-Hawai'i Campus. Sandra Tawake (East Carolina University), Laurence John CONNELL, from the Department of Carucci (Montana State University), Kauka deSilva Geography, University of Sydney, was in Honolulu (Kapi'olani Community College), Michele Dominy 3 for a week in February. He is on extended study Pacific News from Minoa January-March · 1997 leave and intends to spend time in Canada and England before returning to Sydney. Report on Don RUBINSTEIN, from the Micronesian Area Third Confere nee of ESfO Research Center, University of Guam, visited the center on his way back to Guam from the US by Ulla HASAGER mainland in late February. He talked to center staff Pacific Peoples in the Pacific Century: Society, about various activities in Micronesia. Culture, Nature, the third conference of the European On 5 March, Arma Jane KARAER, foreign service Society for Oceanists, was held in Copenhagen, career officer and new American ambassador to 13-15 December 1996, at the National Museum of Papua , called en route to taking up her Denmark and the Institute of Anthropology, post in Port Moresby. She engaged in a general University of Copenhagen, Denmark. discussion of Papua New Guinea and US-Pacific The conference focused on the rapid political, Islands relations. social, cultural, and ecological change in the Pacific. Jacques-Andre COSTILHES, former French More than two hundred scholars participated, ambassador to Fiji, currently with the Ministry of including thirty-five from research institutions in the Defense, Paris, stopped at the center on 6 March to Pacific region. One hundred and four papers were discuss relations between the University of Hawai 'i presented in addition to five keynote lectures. The and the University of France in the Pacific. keynote lectures presented case examples from Allen P Stayman and Nancy L B Fanning, Acting Micronesia (Marjorie V. C. FALANRUW: "Traditional Director and Director, Policy Division, respectively, Systems of Resource Use and Modern Developments of the US Department of the Interior's Office of in Micronesia"), (Malama MELEISEA: Insular Affairs, visited the center the last week in "Governance and Leadership in Polynesia: A Samoan March. They were en route from Washington, DC, Micro-Perspective"), and (Ralph to American Samoa. REGENV ANU: "Challenges for Cultural Resource Management in Vanuatu"), and also presented pan­ STAFF ACTIVITIES Oceanic (Epeli HAU'OFA: "The Ocean in Us") and Center outreach coordinator Tisha HICKSON and global perspectives (Marshall SAHLINS: "The End of graduate assistant Alex MA WYER attended the Sentimental Pessimism: Reflections on Epeli Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Hau'ofa's 'Our Sea of Islands"'). meeting in San Diego, 18-21 February. They took The conference concluded with a plenary ' part in the technology session, speaking, respectively, discussion that explored a range of issues, most on the center's involvement in the Pacific Islands notably those of intellectual property rights and studies online syllabus and bibliography project academic scholars' obligation to engage in wider (http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/psiweb/) and the center dialogues. online guide to over a thousand Pacific Islands films The next ESfO Conference in 1998 will have the and videos (http://www2.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film). overall theme of Asia in the Pacific. For detailed information on the European Society for Oceanists, SEMINARS AND TALKS past conferences including reports and abstracts of papers, and membership directory, visit the society's David AKIN, anthropologist and National parent web site in Finland (http://cc.joensuu.fi/esfo/) Endowment for the Humanities Fellow with the or the Australian mirror site Kwaio Cultural Centre, spoke on "Ancestors, (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/-marck/esfo/esfo.htm). Rules, and Women in Kwaio, Solomon Islands," The web sites include links to Pacific news web sites, on 14 February. Akin has been studying in the Oceanic bibliographies, and information on the ESfO mountains of eastern Kwaio, on the island of Malaita, email discussion list, [email protected], for the past fifteen months. He spoke on how hosted by Swedish universities. changes in Kwaio ancestral religion are affecting relations between Kwaio men and women.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES

UH Press Books and Journals Think of a Garden: And Other Plays, by John KNEUBUHL, is the latest publication from the Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature series. John Kneubuhl is ·one of the Pacific's preeminent playwrights. The title play in this trilogy, "Think of a Garden" reflects on one Samoan chiefs resistance to European arrogance and intrusion and his impact on a young boy with ties to both worlds. Cloth, ISBN 0- 8248-1773-7, US$39; paper, ISBN 0-8248-1814-8, US$18.95. Arts of Vanuatu, edited by Joel BONNEMAISON, Kirk HUFFMAN, Christian KAUFMANN, and Darrell TRYON, is the first work covering the traditional art of the cultural groups that make up Vanuatu. It is also the first work to cover such a broad range of topics under the term "arts." The unity and diversity of the islands that make up Vanuatu is dealt with in chapters that cover language, early history, men's and women's art, the art of power and relating, documenting the visual record, and the contemporary scene. Contributors to the richly­ illustrated volume include geographers, anthropologists, curators, and experts in film and ethnomusicology. Cloth, ISBN 0-8248-1956-X, US$79. Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites, by Patrick Vinton KIRCH, is an introduction to Hawaiian efforts to protect and preserve archaeolo~ical sites in the islands. Kirch has selected a range of sites across six of the islands in order to provide a comprehensive overview of Hawaiian archaeology. All of the sites are accessible to the public, and the author offers guidelines for visiting them. The book is fully illustrated by photographs by Therese I BABINEAU. Cloth, ISBN 0-8248-1816-4, US$45; paper, ISBN 0- 8248-1739-7, US$29.95. Malo Tupou: An Oral History, by Tupou Posesi FANUA, with Lois Wimberg WEBSIBR, is Tupou's recounting, at age 83, of her memories of the first twenty-one years of her life. The result is a compelling oral history of early twentieth-century Tonga from a woman's perspective. Distributed for Pasifika Press outside the South Pacific; paper, ISBN 0-908597-26-6, US$25. Pacific News from Manoa January-March 1997 UH Press books can be ordered through the Trout is an electronic journal of New Zealand and Orders Department, University of Hawai 'i Press, Pacific Islands literature intended to encourage 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822-1888. writers and artists to explore the new medium of the WEB. The journal, hosted by University of Auckland, Other Publications is edited by TONY MURROW. The first issue includes Double Ghosts: Oceanian Voyagers on poems by Robert SULLIVAN, Michelle LEGGOTT, Euroamerican Ships, by center faculty member and Janet CHARMAN, short fiction by Dan David CHAPPELL, is a narrative that weaves together MCMULLIN, photographs by Evotia TAMUA, and numerous local, regional, and national accounts of an article by Linda CROWL on the state of book the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "shipping publishing in the Pacific Region. Submission out" of Pacific Islanders aboard European and details are available on the WEB site, American vessels. Chappell explains the significance http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/trout/trout.htm and of "shipping out" as a world history phenomenon from Murrow at [email protected]. and demonstrates that European expansion was a two-sided process. Published by M E Sharpe, 80 Videotapes Business Park Drive, Armonk, NY 10504; ISBN 1- Spirits of the Voyage was produced and directed by 56324-998-7; US$60.95. Eric ME1ZGAR in association with navigators Jesus Three recent books in an environmental education Urupiy and Ali Haleyalur and the chiefs and people series for Micronesia, Plants and Environments of the of Lamotrek Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of , Plants and Their Environments in Micronesia. The 88-minute video is an account of Chuuk, and Plants, People and Ecology in Yap are the fragile status of traditional navigational available for purchase from the senior author, Mark knowledge, arts, and skills in the face of cultural MERLIN. The books, which were developed under a adaptations to changing times. Of special interest is grant from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur the resurrected navigator rite of passage called Pwo. Foundation, were written to encourage students in the Available in VHS-NTSC and VHS-PAL from Eric islands to consider careers in their home islands as Metzgar, Triton Films, 5177 Mesquite Street, scientists and resource managers. The volumes, which Camarillo, CA 93012 USA; email have color illustrations, contain information on [email protected]. physical geography, plants and vegetation, traditional Pacific Passages is a video on the islands and use of plants, and environmental change and peoples of the Pacific Islands, produced especially conservation in the islands, as well as plant lists and for intermediate and high school students. The video some student exercises. The books, in paperback, are interweaves contemporary footage of ritual events US$20 each, which includes shipping. Mark Merlin and daily activities of Islanders across the Pacific with can be contacted at the Biology Program, University the world-renowned collections of the Honolulu of Hawai 'i at Manoa, Dean 108, Honolulu, HI Academy of Art and the Bernice Pauahi Bishop 96822; email [email protected]. Museum. The video, produced by Caroline Y ACOE, The Pacific Islands: Paths to the Present, by Wendy ARBEIT, and GB HAJIM, focuses on dance, Evelyn COLBERT, former US Deputy Assistant art, ritual, and the stages of life. The video can be Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, ordered in VHS NTSC (US$75) or PAL (US$85) is a brief introduction to the institutions, policy from Pacific Pathways/Palm Frond Productions, concerns, and international roles of the Pacific PO Box 23296, Honolulu, HI 96823; tel (808) 941- Islands. Published by Westview Press; ISBN 0-8133- 1278; ph/fax (808) 396-3326; [email protected]. 3286-9, paper, US$27, 120 pp. CONFERENCES The Center for Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Paper 39, Pacific Islands Dissertations & Theses from Pacific Science Inter-Congress the University of Hawai'i 1923-1996, compiled by The University of the South Pacific is hosting the Lynette FURUHASHI, UH Library Pacific Specialist, is eighth Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 13-19 July now available. It is an updated version of the 1994 1997. The theme is "Islands in the Pacific Century." volm:ne. The paper, at US$15, which includes air mail For information, contact Eighth Pacific Science postage, can be ordered from the address on the Association Inter-Congress Secretariat, c/o School of masthead. Pure & Applied Sciences, The University of the 6 Pacific News from Manoa January-March 1997 South Pacific, Suva, Fiji; tel (679) 212691; fax (679) conference theme is "Women and Human Rights, 314007. The WEB site is http://ruve.usp.ac.fj/-psa. Social Justice, and Citizenship: International Historical Perspectives. Deadline for paper proposals Fourteenth Annual PREL Conference is 30 June 1997. Inquiries can be sent to Professor The deadline to submit applications for workshop Patricia GRIMSHAW, History Department, University presentations at the Fourteenth Annual Pacific of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia; Educational Conference, to be held 5-7 August 1997 pat_grimshaw [email protected]. in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands, is Sonia SMALLACQMBE is responsible for sessions and 18 April. The theme for this year's conference is panels by indigenous women. She requests that "Pacific Educators: Shaping the Future. For proposals from indigenous women be sent to her at information contact the PEC '97 Organizing History Department, University of Melbourne, Committee in Majuro, tel (692) 625-7734, fax (692) Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia; tel 613-344-5981; 625-7735, or Pacific Resources for Education and fax 613-344-7894; email Learning in Honolulu, tel (808) 533-6000, fax (808) sonia_smallacombe@muwayf. unimelb .edu.au. 533-7599, email [email protected]. Australian Anthropological Society Conference Papua New Guinea Music Conference "Indigenous Societies and the Post-Colonial State" is Ivilikou: Papua New Guinea Music Conference and the theme for the conference, which will be held Festival, organized by the Faculty of Creative Arts 2-4 October 1997 on Magnetic Island, Queensland, (UPNG) and the Institute of Papua New Guinea Australia. Among the sessions are "Indigeneity and Studies, will be held 17-21 September 1977 in Port the Post-Colonial State," "Money, Land, and the Moresby. The themes focus on PNG music, both State," "Practicing Anthropology and Archaeology in traditional and modern, including music and religion the 1990s," "Egalitarian Forms," "Pacific Youth," and and traditional ownership and copyright, but papers "Global Medicine, Local Bodies." Abstracts of on the musics of other Island nations will be proposed papers are due by 5 May to session accepted. Those wishing to participate should send conveners. For more information, contact the short abstracts to the organizers, along with audio­ conference secretary, Ms Rosita HENRY, School of visual requirements, by 30 June. The organizers are Anthropology and Archaeology, James Cook Don NILES, Music Department Institute of PNG University of North Queensland, Townsville, QLD Studies, Box 1432, Boroko 111, PNG, fax 675-325- 4811. Tel (6177) 814855; fax (6177) 814045; email 0531, email [email protected]; and Denis [email protected]. au. CROWDY, Music Department, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Papua New Guinea, Box 113, University 134, PNG, fax 675-325-0214, email BULLETIN BOARD [email protected]. Summer Music Course in Tali'iti Science and Exploration: European Voyages West Virginia University will offer a three-week Science and Exploration: European Voyages to the summer course in Polynesian Dance and Drumming Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century, a in Tahiti, 29 June-19 July 1997. Students will tour multidisciplinary conference to reevaluate the the island, learn the music, attend the Heiva Dance context, expectations, and outcomes of Cook's 1768- Festival, and experience in depth. 1771 voyage, will be held 18-19 September 1997 in Application forms and other materials are available London. For information, contact Research from Summer Course in Tahitian Music and Dance, Administrator at the National Maritime Museum, Sylvia Chambers MILLER, Conference Services, 403 Park Row, Greenwich, London SE 10 9NF; Knapp Hall, PO Box 6031 West Virginia University, tel 44-181-312 6616; fax 44-181-312 6722; email Morgantown, WV 26506-6031; tel (304) 293-4013; [email protected]. The conference is fax (304) 293-8755; email [email protected]. cosponsored by the Royal Society. SIT Semester Abroad in Western Samoa Conference on Research in Women's History The School for International Training's College The International Federation for Research in Semester Abroad Program in Western Samoa aims to Women's History will hold its next conference at the educate students on pressing regional and cultural University of Melbourne, 30 June-2 July 1998. The issues and enhance their ability to realize the full 7 Pacific News from Minoa January-March 1997 range of opportunities and responsibilities inherent in Cultural History, Program in Visual Research, and in living in an interdependent world. One of over Program in Contemporary Art and Culture. The fifty academic programs offered by SIT, the course program will foreground visual culture and visual covers fifteen weeks of intensive immersion in the research methods and will collaborate with major study of W estem Samoa. For more information on cultural institutions, including libraries and art the program, contact the admissions office at 1-800- galleries. The centre welcomes expressions of interest 336-1616, write to SIT at PO Box 676, Brattleboro, from prospective graduate students at the MA or PhD Vermont 05302-0676 USA, or visit their Web page at level. For information, contact the Centre for Cross­ http://www.world.leaming.org/csa/csaasia.html. Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Call for PIC Film Festival Entries tel 61-6-2492434; fax 61-6-2492438; Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) has issued [email protected]; or contact the Director, a call for entries for its 1997 Pacific Island Images Professor Nicholas THOMAS, at the address above. Film Festival, their fourth annual festival of indigenous Pacific Island,er-written, produced, or Sainsbury Research Unit for Arts directed films and videos, 23-27 July 1997. Deadline The Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, for tape entries on either 112" or 3/4" VHS (NTSC or Oceania, and the Americas, University of East Anglia, PAL) is 30 May. To request an application form, offers an MA course, "Advanced Studies in the Arts contact Pacific Islanders in Communications, 1221 of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas," as well as Kapi'olani Blvd. Suite 6A-4, Honolulu, HI 96814; opportunities for doctoral research. The one-year tel (808) 591-0059; fax (808) 591-1114; email MA course provides candidates with detailed and [email protected]. The festival is cosponsored by general ethnographic knowledge of the visual arts of Pacific New Media at the University of Hawai'i at Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, together with a Mano a. focus on the methodological and theoretical issues involved in their analysis. For further information, Centre for Cro~-Cultural Research contact the Admissions Secretary, Sainsbury The Australian Research Council has established the Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research as the first ARC University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Special Research Centre in the humanities. The England; tel (44-1603) 592498; fax (44-1603) centre comprises three overlapping streams: Program 259401; [email protected].

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