Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History

Cover
......Page 1
Title
......Page 4
Publisher Information
......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface: In the Beginning......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
An Invitation......Page 18
SECTION ONE: Frames of 
Reference......Page 48
1 
Inside Us the Dead......Page 52
2 Releasing the Voices:
 Historicizing Colonial Encountersin the Pacific......Page 60
3 Starting from Trash......Page 79
4 Indigenous Knowledgeand Academic Imperialism......Page 95
VALUING THE PACIFIC—AN INTERVIEWWITH JAMES CLIFFORD......Page 109
SECTION TWO: The Dynamics 
of Contact......Page 118
5 Possessing Tahiti......Page 129
6 Remembering First Contact: 
Realities and Romance......Page 150
7 Constructing “Pacific” Peoples......Page 169
A VIEW FROM A FAR (NORTH AMERICA)—A COMMENTARY BY RICHARD WHITE......Page 186
SECTION THREE:
Colonial Engagements......Page 190
8 Hawai‘i in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Kingdom and the Kingship......Page 206
9 Deaths on the Mountain: An Account of Police Violence in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea......Page 229
10 Colonial Conversions: Difference, Hierarchy, and History in Early Twentieth-Century Evangelical Propaganda......Page 248
11 The French Way in Plantation Systems......Page 264
12 The New Zealand Wars and the Myth of Conquest......Page 272
13 Theorizing Mâori Women’s Lives: Paradoxes of the Colonial Male Gaze......Page 286
14 Conqueror......Page 304
15 World War II in Kiribati......Page 305
16 Barefoot Benefactors: A Study of Japanese Views of Melanesians......Page 309
A VIEW FROM AFAR (SOUTH ASIA)— AN INTERVIEW WITH GYAN PRAKASH......Page 313
SECTION FOUR: 
“Postcolonial” Politics......Page 320
17 Decolonization......Page 331
18 Colonised People......Page 350
19 My Blood......Page 355
20 Custom and the Way of the Land: Past and Present in Vanuatu and Fiji......Page 357
21 The Relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian People: A Case of Spouse Abuse......Page 375
22 Moe‘uhane......Page 378
23 Simply Chamorro: Tales of Demise and Survival in Guam......Page 379
24 Mixed Blood......Page 400
25 Ngati Kangaru......Page 402
26 Our Pacific......Page 416
27 Treaty-Related Research and Versions of New Zealand History......Page 418
28 Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere,and Sahlins......Page 437
A VIEW FROM AFAR (MIDDLE EAST)— AN INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD SAID......Page 460
Epilogue: Pasts to Remember......Page 470
Abbreviations and Newspapers......Page 490
Bibliography......Page 492
List of Contributors......Page 550
INDEX......Page 554