otago university press 2016 catalogue www otago.ac.nz/press NEW BOOKS I 1 OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand New books 3–25 Level 1 / 398 Cumberland Street, Recent books 26–32 Dunedin, New Zealand Books in print: by title 33–39 Phone: 64 3 479 8807 Books in print: by author 40–41 Fax: 64 3 479 8385 How to buy OUP books 43 Email: [email protected] Web: www.otago.ac.nz/press facebook: www.facebook.com/OtagoUniversityPress Publisher: Rachel Scott Production Manager: Fiona Moffat Editor: Imogen Coxhead Publicist: Rhian Gallagher Accounts Administrator: Glenis Thomas Prices are recommended retail prices and may be subject to change Cover illustration from David Elliot’s Snark 2 I NEW BOOKS MOTHERS’ DARLINGS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC JUDITH A. BENNETT The children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II & ANGELA WANHALLA EDITORS Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific traces some of the intimate relationships that developed between US servicemen and indigenous women in the major US bases from Bora Bora in the east to the Solomon Islands in the west, and from the Gilbert Islands in the north to New Zealand. The American military applied US immigration law based on race to prevent marriage ‘across the colour line’. For indigenous women and their American servicemen sweethearts, legal marriage was impossible, resulting in a generation of children known as ‘GI babies’. Mothers’ Darlings traces these children’s stories of loss, emotion, longing and identity, and of lives lived in the shadow of global war. The writers interviewed many of the children of the Americans and some of the few surviving mothers, as well as others who recalled the wartime presence in their islands. Oral histories reveal what the records of colonial governments and the military largely have ignored, providing a perspective on the effects of the US occupation that until now has been disregarded by historians of the Pacific war. JUDITH BENNETT is a professor of history at the University of Otago. Her research interests are Pacific history, environmental history and Australia’s and New Zealand’s relations with the Pacific Islands. With Tim Bayliss-Smith, Judy editedAn Otago Storeman in Solomon Islands: The diary of William Crossan, copra trader, 1885–86 (ANU, 2012). More recently she edited Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns: Home thoughts abroad (OUP, 2015). June 2016 paperback, illustrated ANGELA WANHALLA is an associate professor of history at the University of Otago. Her 228 x 152 mm , 424 pp Matters of the Heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand (AUP, 2013) won the ISBN 978-1-927322-63-5, $45 Ernest Scott Prize in 2014. More recently she co-edited (with Annabel Cooper and Lachy Paterson) The Lives of Colonial Objects (OUP, 2015). NEW BOOKS I 3 DIANA NOONAN WOMEN OF THE CATLINS & CRIS ANTONA Life in the deep south A haunting, off-the-beaten-track destination, the little-known Catlins region of New Zealand is as mysterious today as it ever was. In this first in-depth look at the lives of its inhabitants, award-winning writer Diana Noonan and photographer Cris Antona collaborate to capture the thoughts and feelings of 26 women from this remote outpost. As the subjects speak for themselves on topics as diverse as family, work, isolation and their relationship with the environment, there is, at last, an opportunity for readers to enter into the heart of this rugged, unknown landscape where few venture and only the strongest make it home. DIANA NOONAN is a freelance journalist and author of many highly acclaimed books for young people. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing. Diana lives on the remote Catlins coast in southeast Otago with her husband Keith Olsen, an illustrator. Her interests include environmental projects, running, natural history and In print food gardening, and she often travels to far-flung parts of the globe in search of traditional paperback, illustrated horticultural practices. Women of the Catlins is her first social documentary. 230 x 250 mm, 192 pp ISBN 978-1-877578-97-7, $49.95 Born in Catalonia and now living in New Zealand, CRIS ANTONA has always been fascinated by the way photography can tell stories. With a background in psychology, social education Published with the assistance of and multimedia, she has integrated photography from a gender perspective as part of her Creative New Zealand work. Focusing on social inclusion, education and cultural understanding, Cris has worked on social documentary photography, and also as an exhibition concept developer, commissioner and digital creative director of a range of multimedia projects. Currently she is a senior lecturer at Otago Polytechnic leading e-learning and digital solutions. Opposite: Christine Mitchell 4 I NEW BOOKS NEW BOOKS I 5 6 I NEW BOOKS ARTEFACTS OF ENCOUNTER NICHOLAS THOMAS, JULIE Cook’s voyages, colonial collecting and museum histories ADAMS, BILLIE LYTHBERG, MAIA NUKU, AMIRIA SALMOND The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James EDITORS Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies or belief systems but of indigenous cultures at the formative stages of their modern histories, and exemplify Islanders’ institutions, cosmologies and social relationships. Recently, scholars from the Pacific and further afield, working with Pacific artefacts at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (MAA), have set out to challenge and rethink some longstanding assumptions on their significance. The Cook voyage collection at the MAA is among the four or five most important in the world, containing over 200 of the 2000-odd objects with Cook voyage provenance that are dispersed throughout the world. The collection includes some 100 artefacts dating from Cook’s first voyage. This stunning book catalogues this collection, and its cutting-edge scholarship sheds new light on the significance of many artefacts of encounter. NICHOLAS THOMAS is Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on art, empire and related themes, In print and curated exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, many in collaboration with jacketed hardback, full colour contemporary artists. His early book, Entangled Objects (1991), influentially contributed to 285 x 250 mm, 348 pp a revival of material culture studies. He went on to publish, among other works, Oceanic Art ISBN 978-1-877578-69-4, $70 (1995) in the Thames and Hudson World of Art series and Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize. Photographs by GWIL OWEN NEW BOOKS I 7 DAVID ELLIOT SNARK Being a true history of the expedition that discovered the AFTER LEWIS CARROLL Snark and the Jabberwock … and its tragic aftermath Gabriel Clutch was a thief and a liar but he was right about one thing. He told me he had a great secret in his collection that would shake the literary world to its roots if it ever got out … So begins the delightfully dark Snark, a tumultous romp through worlds created by Lewis Carroll and here brought to life through the vivid imaginings and fabulous art of award- winning author and illustrator David Elliot. What exactly did happen to the Snark expedition? Did his dagger-proof coat protect the Beaver from the Butcher? What befell the Boots in the Tulgey Wood? Who fell foul of the Jabberwock? The Bandersnatch? The Jub-Jub Bird? And, finally, the big question: what precisely is a SNARK …? David Elliot’s hero, the Boots, here reveals the whole truth for the first time, from his recruitment to the Snark expedition, to his return from a journey of unimaginable, death- defying adventure ... In this charming book for grown-up children of all ages, David Elliot is at his spellbinding and artistic best. November 2016 DAVID ELLIOT is an author and illustrator of children’s books, based in Port Chalmers, Jacketed hardback, full colour Dunedin. He has won many awards for his work, including New Zealand Post Children’s Book 285 x 250 mm, 208 pp of the Year in 2011 (with Margaret Mahy) for The Moon & Farmer McPhee. Pigtails the Pirate ISBN 978-1-877578-94-6, $59.95 won Best Picture Book in the 2003 awards. As well as writing and illustrating his own books, David has illustrated numerous books by others, such as New Zealand authors Joy Cowley, Published with the assistance of Jack Lasenby and Margaret Mahy; UK writer Brian Jacques (author of the Redwall series), and Creative New Zealand US writers T.A. Barron (Great Tree of Avalon series) and John Flanagan (Ranger’s Apprentice and The Brotherband Chronicles). Henry’s Map was selected by the prestigious School Library Journal in the US for its Best Books list in 2013. In 2011 David received the inaugural Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award, and in 2014 the Storylines Margaret Mahy Award. 8 I NEW BOOKS The Jubjub bird NEW BOOKS I 9 JENNY POWELL THE CASE OF THE MISSING BODY The Case of the Missing Body is the true and unusual story of Lily, who has no sense of her body. She has struggled with the effects of this her whole life. Desperate to try anything to ‘be normal’, a nevertheless sceptical Lily agrees to begin work with her physiotherapist in a gymnasium. One extraordinary day, working in the gym, Lily discovers she has shoulder blades.