NEW OPEN ACCESS EDITION ENDORSED BY 30 PROMINENT SCHOLARS FROM AUSTRALIA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, BOROFSKY GUAM, NEW ZEALAND, and UNITED STATES MELANI ANAE (Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland) • BENEDICT ANDERSON (Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus, Cornell University) • CHRIS BALLARD (Senior Fellow, REMEMBRANCE Australian National University) • ALFRED CROSBY (Professor Emeritus, University of Texas) • ROBERT DARNTON (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus, Harvard Uni- versity) • NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS (Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) • THE REMEMBRANCE HONORABLE KALANI ENGLISH (Senate Majority Leader, Hawai‘i State Legislature) • PAUL - of PACIFIC PASTS GILROY (Professor, University College London) • NOELANI GOODYEAR-KA‘OPUA (Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i) • STEPHEN GREENBLATT (John Cogan University Professor, Harvard University) • ANNE PEREZ HATTORI (Professor, University of Guam) • BRUCE HILL AN INVITATION TO REMAKE HISTORY (Radio Australia’s Pacifi c Beat Program) • CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS (Collège de France, Aca- démie française) • SA’ILIEMANU LILOMAIAVA-DOKTOR (Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i-West Oahu) • DAVID LOWENTHAL (Professor, University College, London) • GEORGE Edited by ROBERT BOROFSKY MARCUS (Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine) and PATRICIA SEED (Profes- sor, University of California, Irvine) • IAN ‘AKAHI MASTERSON (Coordinator, Windward Com- munity College) • MATT MATSUDA (Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) • ALEX- ANDER MAWYER (Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i) • WILLIAM McNEILL (Robert A. Milikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago) • MANULANI ALULI MEYER (Professor, University of Hawai‘i-West Oahu) • ADRIAN MUCKLE (Senior Lecturer, Vic- toria University of Wellington) • MARAMA MURU-LANNING (Senior Research Fellow, Univer- sity of Auckland) • JONATHAN KAY KAMAKAWIWO‘OLE OSORIO (Dean and Professor, Uni- EDWARD SAID versity of Hawai’i) • RENATO ROSALDO (Professor, Emeritus, New York University) • DAMON SALESA (Pro Vice Chancellor – Pacifi c, University of Auckland) • DAME ANNE SALMOND JAMES CLIFFORD (Distinguished, University of Auckland) • CAROLINE SINAVAIANA-GABBARD (Associate Pro- of ALBERT WENDT fessor, University of Hawai‘i) • RICHARD SLOTKIN (Olin Professor Emeritus, Wesleyan Univer- sity) • PAIGE WEST (Claire Tow Professor, Columbia University). Please see the book’s front PASTS PACIFIC MARSHALL SAHLINS matter for their detailed endorsements. GREG DENING PATRICIA GRACE Remembrance of Pacifi c Pasts is a book of both empowerment and hope. It draws people EPELI HAU‘OFA with diverse perspectives to engage with one another in ways that encourage them to com- pose richer, fuller historical narratives of the Pacifi c past. We are led to consider: What are the W. S. MERWIN strengths (and weaknesses) of Western senses of the past vis-à-vis Pacifi c Islanders’ senses of GYAN PRAKASH the past? In Remembrance, Islander and Western historians meet on equal terms. This engage- ment encourages readers to weave their own narratives, develop their own conversations, that RICHARD WHITE foster new ways for embracing the region’s past. As readers will see, Remembrance is an invita- tion to remake the region’s history. and others DR. BOROFSKY is Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology and a Professor of Anthro- pology at Hawaii Pacifi c University. He is the author or editor of eight books focusing on the current state of anthropology and Pacifi c constructions of knowledge. His publications include Making History, An Anthropology of Anthropology and “Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins.” Cover art by Pegge Hopper (from Bishop Museum “Festival ’82” poster) Cover design by Nicole Hayward UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-1888 www.uhpress.hawaii.edu Endorsements For New Open Access Edition of Remembrance of Pacific Pasts Remembrance of Pacific Pasts’ new open access edition is a liberating read. It serves as a powerful platform for decolonising hegemonic scripts of Pacific pasts through the incorporation of both western and indige- nous pacific scholars interpretations. The Longue durée outlined in Re- memberances helps us to excavate the ‘middle ground’ as the current indigenising of historical and economic forces of modernisation and de- velopment, and in so doing liberates the indigenous agency in the shap- ing of Pacific futures. Malo lava! Melani Anae, qso School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, University of Auckland This new open access edition reaffirms why Remembrance of Pacific Pasts continues to provide an essential platform from which to launch a multi-vocal, critical and engaged Pacific history. The range of authors, the breadth of their interests, and the fluency of their writing reflect the kinds of histories that we need in the Pacific, in conversation and in con- testation with each other. Chris Ballard Senior Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University As the chair of the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture and someone who travels extensively throughout the region, I believe this an import- ant book for anyone interested in learning about the Pacific through an indigenous lens. It puts Pacific Islander framings of the past on equal footing with those of Western academics. This book encourages each of us to bring together diverse framings and sources of the region’s past into narratives that add meaning and purpose to our lives. This is a must read! The Honorable Kalani English Senate Majority Leader, Hawaii State Legislature Pacific pasts are remade anew with each generation. As Borofsky writes in the new introduction to this volume: “history lies less in the teller than in the dialog the teller shares with his or her audience. It lies in the conver- sations.” In reissuing this book as an open access text, its editor and au- thors multiply conversations that can be provoked, goaded and guided by the deep thinkers who have contributed to Remembrance Pacific Pasts. The volume presents a confluence of ways Pacific Island pasts have been narrated, and it provides a valuable resource for those who will fashion Oceanic pasts and futures. Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘Ōpua Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i I initially encountered many of these essays and authors as a graduate stu- dent and still recall my excitement at seeing such a powerful, eclectic set of writings gathered under one umbrella. More than a decade later, this collection continues to resonate around the region, bringing together many of the peoples and papers that shaped 20th century Pacific studies. Anne Perez Hattori Professor of History, Micronesian Studies, and Chamorro Studies, University of Guam; President, Pacific History Association; Co-Editor, The Journal of Pacific History The most engaging treatment yet of history and anthropology’s predica- ment regarding the interaction between indigenous understandings and western/academic approaches in the Pacific. This edited volume is ex- ceptional, its multidisciplinary, multivocal and multiperspective chapters; insider and outsider views of the Pacific pasts are included and interrogat- ed to produce improved holistic historical analyses. Borofsky’s combina- tion of clarity, and intellectual reflections on objectivity, representation, and narration in academic literatures of the Pacific helps us transcend the imaginary boundaries of history and culture. The new open edition should make this book accessible to a wide audience. Sa’iliemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor Associate Professor of Hawaiian-Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii-West Oahu Borofsky enables readers to surf the cultural waves that crash down upon recorded Western perceptions of the Pacific’s colonial and post-colonial period. Realizing many histories, many truths, abound in Oceania, read- ers can ride these waves recognizing that only through engagement with our varied histories can we truly negotiate a better future for Oceania wherein we can represent our stories while also honoring those of others. Accept Borofsky’s “Invitation” to remake history and you will find your- self navigating through Pacific Island histories as never before. Ian ‘Akahi Masterson Coordinator for the Ocean Education Academy, Windward Community College The new open access version of Remembrance of Pacific Pasts reminds us of why it remains an important and path-breaking work. Departing from strict chronology or discipline, it is more than an edited collection or an- thology: it is a meditation on the very nature of historical experience and understanding. Woven together by historians, anthropologists, critical studies scholars, poets, writers, activists and artists, the voices here arise to shape pasts that are fully resonant in the present. Widely praised and debated, Remembrance is an “invitation” to consider how the dynamics of encounter, exploitation, empire, memory, and the geopolitical worlds of the Pacific Islands shaped and continue to shape the making of the region’s history. Matt Matsuda Professor of History and Academic Dean of the Honors College, Rutgers University-New Brunswick In an overwash age of accelerating and intensifying scholarly publication notable for the resulting paradox of diminished attention to foundation- al volumes, it is past time to remember Remembrance of Pacific Pasts. Current and emerging scholars engaged in the study of Oceania across disciplines will find this volume