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NEW BOOKS [These books can not be purchased from the
CPAS. Please send your enquiries directly to the publishers.] GENERAL Hillstrom, Kevin and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. 2003. Australia,
Oceania, and Antarctica: A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 269 pages. ISBN: 1-57607-694-6 (hardback). "A
concise yet thorough overview of environmental issues, problems, and
controversies facing Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica. The paradisiacal
islands of the South Pacific. The unworldly landscapes and wildlife of
Australia. The frozen expanses of Antarctica. This new title in ABC-CLIO's
World Environments series encompasses some of the most exotic and forbidding
ecosystems on Earth. How is humanity threatening - and preserving - these
diverse and far-flung environments? They are vast, distant, and scarcely
populated. Yet the environments of Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica are
facing the same threats confronting the rest of the planet, as well as some
unique ones of their own. How have human-introduced species impacted
Australia's natural order? What new global conventions are helping close
Antarctica's ozone hole? And how is global climate change threatening the South
Pacific's species-rich coral reefs? The region's governments are grappling with
the spectre of global warming, which, if not meaningfullly addressed by
industrialized nations half a world away, could produce rising sea levels
capable of engulfing several states of Oceania and partially submerging
portions of many other inhabited islands. Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica
tackles the difficult issues, tough problems, and political controversies
surrounding these lands of extremes. Mercader, Julio. 2003. Under the Canopy: The Archaeology of Tropical
Rain Forests. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 336 pages. ISBN:
0-8135-3142-X (cloth). "Conventional
wisdom has long viewed rain forests as impenetrable worlds of chaos - timeless
'jungles' too harsh for human occupation and cultural development. This book
presents evidence that the tropics may instead harbor significant clues to
human evolution, behavior, cultural diversity, and the fundamental role that
humans may have played in the composition of rain forests. An impressive array
of international scholars - Brit Asmussen, William P. Barse, F. David Bulbeck,
Joanna Casey, Richard G. Cooke, Cristóbal Gnecco, Raquel Martí, Betty J.
Meggers, Julio Mercader, Eurico Th. Miller, Santiago Mora, Anthony J. Ranere,
Anne-Marie Sémah, François Sémah, and Truman Simanjuntak - together create an
innovative way at looking at the rain forests. This book is important reading
for anyone interested in tropical archaeology, historical ecology,
hunter-gatherer studies, and the management and conservation of rain forests. Did
our ancestors live in tropical forests? Although we see the rain forest as a
bountiful environment teeming with life forms, most anthropologists and
archaeologists have long viewed these areas as too harsh for human occupation
during the pre-agricultural stages of human development. This book turns
conventional wisdom on its head by providing a well-documented, geographically
diverse overview of Stone Age sites in the wet tropics. New research indicates
that, as humanity and its precursors increased their geographical and
ecological ranges, rain forests were settled at much earlier periods than had
previously been thought." Merle, Isabelle and Michel Naepels (eds). 2003. Les rivages du temps:
Histoire et anthropologie du Pacifique. Paris: L'Harmattan. 232 pages.
ISBN: 2-7475-4367-6. "Historiens
et anthropologues contribuent, dans l'étude du Pacifique, à produire une
histoire plus centrée sur les insulaires et une anthropologie resituée dans une
situation coloniale ou postcoloniale. Cet ouvrage montre la façon dont s'opère
la confrontation entre l'histoire et l'anthropologie sur des terrains et des
objets océaniens, afin de mettre en évidence l'apport de cette rencontre dans
notre compréhension du présent. Les auteurs: Chris Ballard, Niko Besnier, Greg
Dening, Sinclair Dinnen, Jonathan Friedman, Isabelle Merle, Michel Naepels, et
Marie Salaûn." Merry, Sally Eagle and Donald Brenneis (eds). 2003. Law and Empire in
the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai'i. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, School of American
Research. 314 pages. ISBN: 1-930618-24-7 (cloth) and 1-930618-25-5 (paper). "Hawai‘i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories
of colonialism and plantation sugar
production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific
Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the
islands' indigenous populations were forced to share resources with a small
colonizing elite and growing numbers of workers imported from East and South
Asia. Both societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through
reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation complex in
the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however, constructed vastly
different legal relationships with the indigenous peoples in each setting, and
policy toward imported workers also differed in arrangements around land tenure
and political participation. The legacies of these colonial arrangements are at
the roots of the current crisis in both places. Focusing on the intimate
relationship between law, culture, and the production of social knowledge,
these essays re-center law in social theory. The authors analyze the transition
from chiefdom to capitalism, colonizers' racial and governmental ideologies,
land and labor policies, and contemporary efforts to recuperate indigenous
culture and assert or maintain indigenous sovereignty. Speaking to Fijian and
Hawaiian circumstances, this volume illuminates the role of legal and archival
practice in constructing ethnic and political identities and producing colonial
and anthropological knowledge. Contributors: Donald Brenneis, Jane F. Collier, Martha Kaplan, John D. Kelly, Brij V.
Lal, Sally Engle Merry, Hirokazu Miyazaki, Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio,
Annelise Riles, and Noenoe K. Silva." Rosa, Frederico. (2003). L'Age
d'or du totémisme: Histoire d'un débat anthropologique (1887-1929). Paris:
CNRS Editions "TABLE
DES MATIÈRES: PRÉFACE, Patrick Menget. viii; INTRODUCTION 1; Ie PARTIE: LA CIVILISATION
PRIMITIVE; Chapitre premier. MacLennan et le mouvement anthropologique
tylorien. 11; Chapitre II. L’utopie totémique de Frazer. 35; Chapitre III. Les
Kamilaroi de Fison et Howitt 45;
Chapitre IV. La mise en échec de l’ethnographie australienne évolutionniste 53;
IIe PARTIE: LA RELIGION DU SANG; Chapitre V. Le pacte animiste de
Robertson Smith. 67; Chapitre VI. Durkheim primitif et les menstrues
sacrées 91; Chapitre VII. Andrew Lang
et le secret du totem. 105; IIIe PARTIE: LA RÉVOLUTION ARUNTA;
Chapitre VIII. Spencer et Gillen au coeur de l’Australie. 119; Chapitre IX.
Frazer l’iconoclaste et la solidarité magique; des mangeurs de totems. 129;
Chapitre X. Lang contra Frazer ou la décadence du monothéisme aborigène 143;
Chapitre XI. Anomie arunta : l’effondrement du culte matrilinéaire. 151;
Chapitre XII. Le symbole contagieux ou l’effervescence; de la sociologie
religieuse durkheimienne. 159; IVe PARTIE: L’UNITÉ ARTIFICIELLE
AMÉRICAINE; Chapitre XIII. The american view of totemism 177; Chapitre XIV. Franz Boas et les
origines du totémisme kwakiutl. 199; Chapitre XV. Goldenweiser et la
réinvention du totémisme. 207; Ve PARTIE: TOTÉMISME ET EXOGAMIE;
Chapitre XVI. Concept ou conception ? Frazer et les enfants du totémisme 231; Chapitre XVII. L’évolution du mariage
de groupe ou les limites de l’exogamie 253; Chapitre XVIII.Cycle totémique et
cycle matriarcal : les « réussites »; de la kulturhistorische Methode 265; Chapitre XIX. La sociologie
diffusionniste de Rivers ou l’histoire du totémisme en Mélanésie 287; Chapitre XX. Radcliffe-Brown et
l’organisation sociale de la nature. 303; CONCLUSION 323; ANNEXE 331;
INDEX 337; BIBLIOGRAPHIE 343." Ross, Malcolm, Andrew Pawley
and Meredith Osmond (eds). 2003. The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture
and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society, Volume 2: The Physical
Environment. Pacific Linguistics No.545. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 387
pages. ISBN: 0-85883-539-8. "This
is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the
ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume
deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a
collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical
reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2
examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An
introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that
locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the
late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to
denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological
phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens
and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers
talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters
which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and
directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time." Rumsey, Alan and James Weiner (eds). 2004. Mining and Indigenous
Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea. 57 Orchard Way, Wantage,
Oxon, OX12 8ED, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing. First published in 2002 by
Crawford House Publishing. ISBN 0-9545572-3-9 (Pb). "This
volume gives a vital and unique insight into the effects of mining and other
forms of resource extraction upon the indigenous peoples of Australia and Papua
New Guinea. Based on extensive fieldwork with the people concerned, it offers a
comparative focus on indigenous cosmologies and their articulation or
disjunction with the forces of
'development'. A central dimension of contrast is that Australia as a
'settled' continent has had wholesale dispossession of Aboriginal land, while
in Papua New Guinea more than 95% of the land surface remains unalienated from
customary ownership. Less obviously, there are also important similarities
owing to: 1. a shared form of land title (largely unheard of outside Australia
and Papua New Guinea) in which the state retains ownership of underground
resources; 2. the manner in which Western law has been used in both countries
to define and codify customary land tenure; 3. an emphasis on the reproductive
imagery of minerals, petroleum and extraction processes employed by Aborigines
and Papua New Guineans; 4. and some surprising parallels in the ways that
social identities on either side of the Arafura Sea have traditionally been
grounded in landscape. Contents: 1 Introduction: Depositings, James F.
Weiner; 2 The iron furnace of Birrinydji, Ian McIntosh; 3 The Mount Kare
python: Huli myths and gendered fantasies of agency, Holly Wardlow; 4 Who and
what is a landowner? Mythology and marking the ground in a Papua New Guinea
mining project, Dan Jorgensen; 5 Continuity and identity: Mineral development,
land tenure and 'ownership' among the northern Mountain Ok, Don Gardner; 6
Land, stories and resources: Some impacts of large-scale resource exploitation
on Onabasulu lifeworlds, T.M. Ernst; 7 The politics of petroleum extraction and
royalty distribution at Lake Kutubu, Bill F. Sagir; 8 The Old Airforce Road:
Myth and mining in north-east Arnhem Land, Ian Keen; 9 Changing views of place
and time along the Ok Tedi, Stuart Kirsch; 10 Poisoning the rainbow: Mining,
pollution and indigenous cosmology in Far North Queensland, Veronica Strang; 11
Mining, land claims and the negotiation of indigenous interests: Research from
the Queensland Gulf country and the Pilbara region of Western Australia, David
Trigger and Michael Robinson; 12 Development, rationalisation, and sacred
sites: Comparative perspectives on Papua New Guinea and Australia, Francesca
Merlan; References; Index. Salmond, Anne. 2003. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in
the South Seas. London: Allan Lane. 528 pages. ISBN: 0-7139-9661-7 (hb). Salmond, Anne. 2004. The Trial of the Cannibal Dog:
Captain Cook in the South Seas. London: Penguin Books. 400
pages. ISBN: 0-1410-1003-7 (pb). "The
Pacific voyages of James Cook explored the ice-bound fringes of the Arctic and
Antarctic, sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and
volcanic eruptions, discovered unknown lands and peoples and made their Captain
an icon of imperial history. Yet, as Anne Salmond shows, the story of these
epic South Sea journeys is far more than one of conquest and control. She has
devoted a lifetime to the study of relations between Europeans and Polynesians,
and this startling, rich, stylish book is the result. In Salmond's account,
Cook's great voyages regain their dreamlike quality as they encounter the last
major human communities, untouched by wider worlds. Far from being little
wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, his ships and the men in
them are as much changed by what happens as the islanders they meet. We see
them alarmed and entranced by the islanders' open sexuality, shocked by human
sacrifice and cannibalism, but also forging relationships with Pacific Island
friends and lovers, acquiring tattoos and learning to speak Polynesian
languages, with Cook himself granted the status of high chief in many areas
before his violent downfall. Filled with astonishing descriptions, drawing on
all the surviving accounts of New Zealand, Tahiti, Easter Island, Hawaii,
Tonga, the Society Islands and the New Hebrides, The Trial of the Cannibal
Dog re-imagines the two worlds that explosively collided in the eighteenth
century and the lasting impact of that collision." Sankaran, Chitra, Liew-Geok Leong and Rajeev S. Patke (eds). 2003. Complicities:
Connections and Divisions: Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the
Asia-Pacific Region. New York: Peter Lang. 361 pages. ISBN: 3-906770-48-6
(pb). "The
twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial
Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in
Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions
between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into
the three sections of 'Asia-Pacific Relations', 'The Politics of Identity' and
'Language, Gender and Empowerment', these essays examine selected texts from
countries which include Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Micronesia." Sharrad, Paul. 2003. Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling
the Void. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 320 pages. ISBN:
1-86940-303-7 (paperback). NZ + Australian rights only. Sharrad, Paul. 2003. Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling
the Void. Manchester: Manchester
University Press. 320 pages. ISBN: 0-7190-5942-9 (hardback). "Albert
Wendt is by far the most prolific and most influential contemporary Pacific
Island writer. He has written four books of poetry, three collections of short
stories, five novels and has edited three anthologies of Pacific writing. He
has worked in his native Samoa, in Fiji, in New Zealand for many years, and in
Hawaii; he has taught literature and creative writing and been a major force in
the encouragement and promotion of young Pacific Island writers. Paul Sharrad's
book is the first extended study of this important writer and is an
introduction to his work designed for students and general readers. Setting
Wendt's achievement in the settings of Pacific culture, New Zealand
contemporary writing and post-colonial discourse, he presents a chronological
treatment of all Wendt's major works. Sharrad is interested in the imaginative
power that drives them but also in the way in which they draw deeply on
indigenous tradition while expressing at the same time the discontinuities, ambiguities
and subversions of the postmodern consciousness." Thomas, Nicholas. 2003. Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook.
London: Allen Lane. 512 pages. ISBN: 0-7139-9557-2 (hb). "Captain James Cook was one of the greatest sea
explorers of all time. His epic voyages charted the islands of the Pacific,
defined the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia, and ventured into both
Arctic and Antarctic ice. His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by
tropical diseases and survived frozen oceans. They did all this not for
conquest, but as Nicholas Thomas's compelling books shows, to map the unknown
and chart new territory. Cook's voyages are remarkable and enduringly
controversial for their meetings with peoples. Aboriginal Australians, Maori,
Hawaiians and many others encountered Europeans – often for the first time.
These meetings were charged with mutual curiosity, animated by pleasure, and
disturbed by violence. Contact meant mutual knowledge, but also trade, sex, and
disease. Cook became steadily more intrigued by Islanders' lives, arts, and
rituals, and at the same time more troubled by the consequences of his own
voyages. He wrote copiously and sometimes passionately, trying to find the
words for what was novel and curious, trying to define himself and his mission
as essentially humane. Nicholas Thomas draws on twenty years' research into
Pacific art, culture and history to explore the drama of Cook's expeditions.
Central to the story is Captain Cook's curiosity. A brilliant map-maker even
before he entered the Pacific, Cook would journey emotionally and
intellectually into unknown waters, and meet people on beaches who were used to
voyaging themselves. Tahitians, Maori, and Hawaiians would position this
enigmatic visitor on their own maps, in ways he could neither understand nor
control. Their meetings would be sometimes rewarding, sometimes dangerous,
always strangely rich and unpredictable. Discoveries re-imagines these
encounters for a new audience, overturning the familiar images of Cook as both hero
and as ruthless colonizer, and exploring the fascinating and far more ambiguous
figure beneath." Vohra, N.N. (ed.). 2004. India
and Australasia: History, Culture and Society. Delhi: India International
Centre and Shipra Publications. ISBN: 81-7541-168-6. "This
book deals with the entire Asia Pacific region, with special focus on
Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
Eminent scholars and policy makers from the region have contributed in making
this book a key source for understanding multiculturalism and its growing
importance in this region. With the erosion of older concepts like 'one nation,
one culture' it is becoming an imperative to share experiences, insights and
concepts in order to deal with the ethnic tensions, statehood, migration,
identity and globalisation. The 23 papers in this volume, through the study of
contemporary conflict situations, inconclusively demonstrate how vitally
survival is linked with the acceptance of diversities and multiculturalism in
this region." AUSTRALIA Beresford, Quentin and Gary Partington (eds). 2003. Reform and
Resistance in Aboriginal Education: The Australian Experience. Crawley, WA:
University of Western Australia Press. 296 pages. ISBN: 1-920694-03-X
(paperback). "A
good education is essential for making a successful life in the modern world.
This book argues that Australia’s Indigenous students are not being well served
by the education systems. There are exceptions and some programs work well, but
the system fails the majority of students. The book analyses the reasons for
this failure by looking at the context, history and social realities affecting
Aboriginal education. Well researched and strongly argued chapters on the
family, language, health, attendance, classroom management and the criminal
justice system locate education as a dynamic part of society. The interaction
between schools and other agencies is given special attention. As well as
looking at problems, the book provides directions for solutions. The dilemmas
of the remote area school are addressed, and a number of programs are examined
which are succeeding in providing a better education for Aboriginal youth.
Although there are no easy solutions, the book demonstrates that impressive
gains can be made, and that reforms can occur with solidly based effort and
good will." Chapman, Peter (ed.). 2003. Historical Records of Australia. Series 3, Volume 8. Carlton,
Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing. 1056 pages. ISBN: 0-522-85046-4
(hardback). "Historical
Records of Australia is a basic and vital source for early Australian history.
The publication of Volume VIII of this series is of relevance in recently
developed historical areas such as Aboriginal Studies and of continuing
relevance to legal, administrative and social history. The project began in
1914 with 33 volumes being published up until 1925 but was then discontinued.
In 1997 the project was recommenced and number VII of the third series was
published. The current Volume VIII opens in 1828 when the colony of Van
Dieman's Land was entering a period of its development that was to be of great
significance in the wider history of Australia. This was particularly true in
regard to Aboriginal people, as it was the period immediately before the 'Black
Line' of 1830. This period is also characterised by the development of
educational and religious institutions, the maturation of Governor Arthur's
convict system, and emergence of the issues of trail by jury, a free press, and
representative government. The Historical Records are drawn from the complete
original despatches of the period which were sent by the Governor of the Colony
to London as reports on, and requests for assistance with, the administration
of the colony. The continuation of this series in scholarly edited and indexed
form is a boon for researchers and scholars." Cowlishaw, Gillian. 2003. Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden
Injuries of Race. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 304 pages.
ISBN: 1-4051-1404-5 (paperback) and 1-4051-1403-7 (hardback). "In
December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among
local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in
force. In this book, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident
as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and
racialized violence. She brings indigenous Australians into the contemporary
global race discourse in a lively, highly readable ethnography. She erxplores
the local and national meanings of a race riot in Australia and the entrenched
racial binary evident in everyday relationships. And she raises questions about
history, memory, citizenship, respect, and abjection as means of considering
the politics, social science, and psychology of race rivalry and indigenous
marginality. The book has been written by a prominent scholar with clarity,
verve, and accessibility both for beginners and those well-versed in
contemporary debates. Contents: Prologue: Riotous Tales; 1.
Introductions: the signs of social life; 2. Stigma and Complaint; 3. Injury and
Agency; 4. Performance; 5. Boundaries; 6. Violence; 7. Citizenship; 8. Our
History; 9. Trials and Transformations; Bibliography; Index." Crawford, Patricia and Ian Crawford. 2003. Contested Country: A
History of the Northcliffe Area of Western Australia. Crawley, WA:
University of Western Australia Press. 280 pages. ISBN: 1-920694-00-5
(paperback). "Whose
country is it? And who decides how the land should be managed? In exploring
such fundamental questions, involving divergent views on Aboriginal land
rights, environmental issues and, in particular, the future of our forests,
Patricia and Ian Crawford argue that differing attitudes to the land underlie
many of the current divisions between Aboriginal and European, city and
country. The book focuses on the area surrounding Northcliffe, a small Western
Australian country town deep in the cool, rainy karri country and coastal
plains of the lower South West. But Northcliffe is presented as a microcosm of
Australian society, so this is essentially an Australian story, one in which
the authors seek to understand the land, the conflicting views over its use,
and the way people have sought to shape it to their own purposes, whether
hunting and gathering, droving, dairy farming, forestry or conservation. This
book has grown out of the authors’ close personal involvement with the region
and its people, and their concern for the preservation of one of the most
botanically diverse areas in Australia." Grossman, Michele (ed.). 2003. Blacklines: Contemporary Critical
Writing by Indigenous Australians. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University
Publishing. 260 pages. ISBN: 0-522-85069-3 (pb). "Written
by established and emerging Indigenous intellectuals from a variety of
positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing
and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity and
knowledge in both national and global contexts. From museums to Mabo,
anthropology to art, feminism to film, land rights to literature, the essays
collected here offer provocative insights and compelling arguments around the
historical and contemporary issues confronting Indigenous Australians today.
Contributors: Ian Anderson, Fabienne Bayet-Charlton, Jeanie Bell, Tony Birch,
Mick Dodson, Jackie Huggins, Sonja Kurtzer, Marcia Langton, Aileen
Moreton-Robinson, Philip Morrissey, Martin Nakata, Margo Neale, Lin Onus, and
Hetti Perkins." Hamilton-Smith, Elery and Brian Finlayson. 2003. Beneath the Surface:
A Natural History of Australian Caves. Sydney, NSW: University of New South
Wales Press. 182 pages. ISBN: 0-86840-595-7 (hardback). "This
book comprehensively reviews what we presently know about Australia's caves
including the varieties of cave types and how they form, cave fauna, fossils,
Aboriginal relics and decorations in caves, and a history of cave exploration
and cave science in Australia. While Australia doesn't have a lot of caves
compared with other continents, its caves have some special attractions that
make them internationally renowned. They include the huge, water-filled
passages under the Nullarbor Plain (where cave divers can undertake one of the
longest cave dives in the world, more than six kilometres), the country's most
visited caves complex, Jenolan, inland from Sydney, with its spectacular
formations and massive limestone arches, and the cold, deep shafts of the
Junee-Florentine region of Tasmania." Keen, Ian. 2004. Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the
Threshold of Colonisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 350 pages.
ISBN: 0195507665 (pb). "This
book compares and contrasts aspects of Aboriginal economy and society across
seven different regions, from the southwest of Western Australia to the tip of
Cape York. The book reconstructs and explores the relationships between
environment, technologies, economy and society in these regions as they were at
‘the threshold of European colonisation’. Discussion is developed in a number
of traditional areas of focus and debate within the discipline of social and
cultural anthropology. These include the relationship between environment and
culture, the construction of group and individual identity, kinship and
marriage, cosmology, governance, and the control and organisation of production,
distribution and exchange. This book is the first systematic, broad-based
comparative study of Aboriginal society with a continental scope and is an
invaluable contribution to the study of anthropology." Mayne, Alan. 2003. Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields
Landscape. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing. 232 pages.
ISBN: 0-522-85076-6 (paperback). "The
history of the Australian gold rushes is full of exaggeration: the First This,
the Richest That, the Largest Something Else. Hill End unravels the myths
surrounding the gold rushes in order to reveal the hidden histories of the
Wiradjuri people, of the graziers and convicts who occupied the Wiradjuri
lands, of the multicultural gold-boom community and of the subsistence community
that endured for generations after the boom had passed. Hill End is perched
high on the New South Wales Central Tablelands, some 300 kilometres north-west
of Sydney. The Hill End Historic Site, which was proclaimed in 1967, is one of
first cultural heritage sites to be reserved in Australia. This is a book that
digs past Hill End's gold rush façade into the lives of the people who lived
through its history." Thomson, Donald F. 2004. Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. Compiled
and introduced by Nicolas Peterson. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne Univesity
Publishing. 264 pagen. ISBN: 0-522-85063-4 (hardback). New extended edition of
the original 1983 edition of 146 pages. "In
1932-33, Yolngu people living in the Caledon Bay area of north-east Arnhem Land
were involved in the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three Europeans. A
punitive expedition was proposed to 'teach the Aborigines a lesson'. In
response, Donald Thomson, a Melbourne-born anthropologist, offered to
investigate the causes of the conflict. After seven months investigation he
persuaded the Federal Government to free the three men convicted of the
killings and returned with them to their own country, subsequently spending
fifteen months documenting the culture of the region. Whilst in Arnhem Land, Thomson,
a superb and enthusiastic photographer, made the most comprehensive
photographic record of any fully functioning, self-supporting Aboriginal
society that we will ever have. The one hundred and thirty images included in
this book cover domestic life, subsistence, house types, material culture, and
religious life, providing a uniquely privileged glimpse of life beyond the
frontier. Thomson recorded his experiences in newspaper and academic articles,
private papers and extended reports to the government. Nicolas Peterson brings
this material together as a compelling, highly personal narrative in Thomson's
own words. It is a narrative that names all the Aboriginal people involved,
presenting them as individuals in a way no other writings of the time do. Through
it all Thomson's passionate commitment to Aboriginal rights as defender, critic
and advocate, shines through." MELANESIA Brundige, Elizabeth, Winter King, Priyneha Vahali, Stephen Vladeck and
Xiang Yuan. 2003. Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application
of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control. New Haven, CT:
Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School. A
paper prepared for the Indonesian Human
Rights Network. 77 pages. Retrieved March 22, 2004, from the World Wide Web: http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/426/westpapuahrights.pdf "Since
the so-called Act of Free Choice, the West Papuan people have suffered
persistent and horrible abuses at the hands of the Indonesian government. The
Indonesian military and security forces have engaged in widespread violence and
extrajudicial killings in West Papua. They have subjected Papuan men and women
to acts of torture, disappearance, rape, and sexual violence, thus causing
serious bodily and mental harm. Systematic resource exploitation, the
destruction of Papuan resources and crops, compulsory (and often uncompensated)
labor, transmigration schemes, and forced relocation have caused pervasive
environmental harm to the region, undermined traditional subsistence practices,
and led to widespread disease, malnutrition, and death among West Papuans. Such
acts, taken as a whole, appear to constitute the imposition of conditions of
life calculated to bring about the destruction of the West Papuans. Many of
these acts, individually and collectively, clearly constitute crimes against
humanity under international law. Further, the West Papuans, objectively, and
in the eyes of their Indonesian persecutors, appear to constitute a group as
defined by Article II of the Genocide Convention. In the final analysis,
whether the sum of acts committed by the Indonesians against the West Papuans
rises to the level of genocide turns largely on the question of whether these
acts were committed with the requisite mens rea or intent to destroy the
West Papuan group. Obviously, few perpetrators of genocide leave behind a clear
record of intent akin to Hitler’s explicit statements of intent to destroy the
Jews or the Rwandan Hutu government’s carefully laid plan to rid Rwanda of all
ethnic Tutsis. Usually, intent must be inferred from the perpetrators’ acts,
considered as a whole, along with any other available evidence that the victim
group was targeted as such. In the West Papuan case, any such inference
necessarily remains tentative given the difficulties in procuring comprehensive
qualitative or quantitative data about Indonesian human rights abuses in West
Papua, past and present. However, the historical and contemporary evidence set
out above strongly suggests that the Indonesian government has committed
proscribed acts with the intent to destroy the West Papuans as such, in
violation of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide and the customary international law prohibition this Convention
embodies." Foale, Simon and Bruno Manele. 2003. Privatising Fish? Barriers to
the Use of Marine Protected Areas for Conservation and Fishery Management in
Melanesia. Working Paper No.47. Canberra: Resource Management in
Asia-Pacific Program, RSPAS, ANU. 16 pages. Retrieved February 11, 2004, from
the World Wide Web: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/workingpapers.php. "In this paper we
examine the strengths and weaknesses of state-supported Customary Marine Tenure
(CMT) systems in two independent Melanesian states in the context of burgeoning
commercial and subsistence fisheries. Both Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
can be categorised as 'weak states' where access by foreign-owned fishing
companies to state-owned resources (e.g. tuna) is typically easy to obtain by
bribing the relevant politicians and bureaucrats at national and/or provincial
level. By contrast, access to near-shore fishery resources necessitates
negotiation with the landowners of adjacent coastal zones, and this in itself
can provide some level of resource protection. However the expansion of markets
and rapid increases in populations in the region are exerting pressures on subsistence
and commercial fisheries that are already creating significant problems. In the
Solomon Islands the recent collapse of the state in a militia coup has also
meant that any escalation in marine resource piracy is likely to proceed
unchecked and indeed in many cases unnoticed and unreported. The management
tool of choice for multi-species fisheries across the world, and particularly
in cash-poor developing countries is the Marine Protected Area (MPA), and this
system has proved quite successful in many instances, particularly in rich,
industrialised countries. However, with some exceptions, typical Melanesian CMT
regimes make MPAs difficult to establish because many coastal zones are finely
divided along clan boundaries, such that few clans would be willing to 'lock
up' their own reefs for the benefit of neighbouring clans. How then can local
communities in these countries most effectively manage their marine resources
in an environment of escalating fishing pressure and weak governance? In this
essay we analyse the social and institutional contexts of near-shore
community-based fishery resource management, and explore options for the
future. We look at the potential utility of educating reef owners about aspects
of the life cycle of marine organisms that are mostly absent from local
knowledge systems and how this information could empower villagers to better
formulate their own management regimes." Jackson, Richard T. 2003. Muddying the Waters of the Fly: Underlying
Issues or Stereotypes? Working Paper No.41. Canberra: Resource Management
in Asia-Pacific Program, RSPAS, ANU. 13 pages. Retrieved February 11, 2004,
from the World Wide Web: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/workingpapers.php "Were I Stuart
Kirsch, I would be quietly proud of myself. For Stuart, having completed an
outstanding piece of basic, traditional anthropological field work for academic
purposes (Kirsch 1991), then translated his knowledge of Yonggom society into a
successful campaign on behalf of the Yonggom in their fight to receive proper
compensation for the damage done to their lands by the Ok Tedi mine (Kirsch
1989, 1996a, 1996b, 1997). He made a difference. Few people can claim to have
ever done that. I say this at the outset since I am sure that the remainder of
this essay will be seen by many as an attempt to say the exact opposite. It is
not. It is an attempt to show that the context in which the Ok Tedi litigation
took place was complex; that the litigation itself hardly touched upon the
realities of life in the lower Ok Tedi; that for the majority of people in the
North Fly region the arrival of Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) has been very
advantageous; and that events which have occurred since the conclusion of the
case strongly suggest that the case solved not a single problem but, rather,
created several new ones and, in view of this, cannot at all be considered to
be the triumph for activist law that some proclaim it to have been. No doubt
this will be seen by some as an attempt to muddy the waters of what is
otherwise a fine case study of basic moral issues." Kalinoe, Lawrence and James Leach (eds). 2004. Rationales of
Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New
Guinea. 57 Orchard Way, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8ED, UK: Sean Kingston
Publishing. ISBN: 0-9545572-0-4 (Hb) and
0- 9545572-1-2 (Pb). "What
constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context
of a burgeoning discourse of property, these are vital questions. This book
offers conceptual clarification in the context of material, intellectual and
cultural resources in Papua New Guinea. The volume is a result of a major
research project headed by Marilyn Strathern and Eric Hirsch, and brings
together contributions from social anthropology and law. The approaches
demonstrated, and conclusions reached, build upon recent understandings
developed within Melanesian anthropology, but have far wider significance. The
first publication sold out in Papua New Guinea due to the relevance of its
approach and contents to lawyers and policy makers in that country. It is here
made available to a wider readership, particularly those teaching courses on
resource development, cultural and intellectual property, contemporary Pacific
societies, environmental degradation, and property itself. Contents:
Preface, James Leach; 1. Introduction: Rationales of Ownership, Marilyn
Strathern; 2. Mining Boundaries and Local Land Narratives (tidibe) in the Udabe
Valley, Central Province, Eric Hirsch; 3. Disputing Damage Versus Disputing
Ownership in Suau, Melissa Demian; 4. Land, Trees and History: Disputes
Involving Boundaries and Identities in the Context of Development, James Leach;
5. The Bases of Ownership Claims Over Natural Resources by Indigenous Peoples
in Papua New Guinea, Lawrence Kalinoe; 6. Keeping the Network in View:
Compensation Claims, Property and Social Relations in Melanesia, Stuart Kirsch;
7. Combining Rationales from Bolivip: The Person and Property Rights
Legislation in Papua New Guinea, Tony Crook; 8. Global and Local Contexts,
Marilyn Strathern." Kennedy, Jean and William Clarke. 2004. Cultivated Landscapes of the
Southwest Pacific. Working Paper No.50. Canberra: Resource Management in
Asia-Pacific Program, RSPAS, ANU. 47 pages. Retrieved February 11, 2004, from
the World Wide Web: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/workingpapers.php. "As Huber (1977:10)
further notes, however, what may look like 'laziness' is not an attempt by
people to maximise leisure at the expense of productivity. Rather, the rural
Papua New Guineans he wrote about are as eager to convert free time into cash
as most rural people throughout the tropics. The problem is, as suggested
above, that the labour input necessary to manage cultivated landscapes may
appear to outsiders to be casual and sporadic, not real work. But it is this
pattern of modest activity carried out by people circulating through the
landscape that keeps the productive processes working and that, as Huber
describes, is also an integral thread in the fabric of social life. Just as the
dichotomy of garden/forest is not applicable, neither is work something
separate from social life and sense of community. Without intending to
romanticise villages and small communities (we all know the schisms that exist
therein), they have been recognised to possess desirable qualities often
lacking in our contemporary world, where some people are burdened by poverty
and unemployment while others are exhausted or deprived of leisure and social
life by excessive hours of work. Some thinkers (e.g. Hamilton 2003; Gorz
1994) now urge us to moderate the worst effects of consumer capitalism and to
recover the integration of pre-modern societies, societies in which life and
work are unified, in which the economy has a moral basis, in which maximum
production and consumption are not the highest goals, and in which the
inhabitants of a landscape have knowledge of its workings and are concerned to
manage it as a whole." May, R.J. 2003. 'Arc of Instability'? Melanesia in the early 2000s.
Occasional Paper No.4. Canterbury, NZ: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific
Studies, University of Canterbury and State, Society and Governance in
Melanesia Project, RSPAS, ANU. 71 pages. ISBN: 1-877175-13-7. Contents: 1. R.J. May: The Military in
Papua New Guinea: A 'Culture of Instability'? 2. Anthony Regan: The
Bougainville Peace Agreement, 2001- 2002: Towards Order and Stability for
Bougainville? 3. Sinclair Dineen: Guns, Money and Politics: Disorder in the
Solomon Islands; 4. Michael Morgan: Converging on the Arc of Instability? The
Fall of Barak Sope and the Spectre of a Coup in Vanuatu; 5. Brij V. Lal: In
Spite of Mr Speight? Fiji's Road to the General Elections, 2001; 6. Benjamin
Reilly: Islands of Neglect; A full
bibliography. Offenberg, Gertrudis A.M. and Jan Pouwer (eds). (2002). Amoko - In the beginning: Myths and legends
of the Asmat and Mimika Papuans. Belair, SA: Crawford House Publishing
Australia (Fax:
+ 61 8 8370 3566; Email: tonycraw@bigpond.net.au). ISBN:
1-86333-207-3 (paperback). "Father
Gerard A. Zegwaard, MSC, spent a large part of his life in Netherlands New
Guinea and Indonesia. On 6 January 1996, then retired and living in Rotterdam,
he handed Gertrudis Offenberg a folder stuffed full of myths and legends of the
Asmat and Mimika Papuans, asking whether they might be worked up into a book.
Gerard Zegwaard died unexpectedly on 15 June 1996. Amoko - In the Beginning
is the remarkable book of his stories. The book only covers those myths
collected prior to the Indonesian takeover of Netherlands New Guinea in 1962.
The commentaries and descriptions of others also cover the period prior to
1962, ensuring a homogeneous context. This anthology is published in honour of
Father Zegwaard and the peoples it eulogises, and is the first step in
much-needed cross-cultural comparison of themes arising from the myths and
legends of various peoples on the island of New Guinea. The book highlights the
often spectacular world-view and life-ways of two adjacent and similar yet
different cultures on the south-west coast of the former Netherlands New Guinea,
cultures that have changed dramatically since 1962." Page, Patsy. 2004. Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji.
Canberra: Pandanus Books. 272 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-048-4 (softcover). "As
World War II drew ever closer to Fiji, young Patsy Thomsett watched her world
changing in front of her eyes. The Governor in his splendid plumes was still
there, as was the elderly lady who could remember the cannibal days. Indians
and Fijians still lived in relative harmony, and the rituals of expatriate life
continued almost unaltered. But more troubling times were already emerging.
Half a century later, Patricia Page, a long time resident of Paris, returned to
Fiji with her sister Gay to revisit the sites of the happiest days of her
childhood, and also to meditate on the Empire on which the sun never set at the
other end of the world. In this beguiling memoir, Patricia Page mingles past
and present in ways that will speak eloquently to everyone, and especially to
those who had once lived, like her, in a magical realm." - Andrew
Riemer. Pasveer, Juliette M. 2004. The Djief
Hunters: 26,000 Years of Rainforest Exploitation on the Bird's Head of Papua,
Indonesia. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia No.17. P.O. Box 825, 2160 SZ Lisse,
The Netherlands: A.A. Balkema Publishers (Phone +31 (0)252 435492; Fax +31
(0)252 435447; Email orders@swets.nl; Website www.balkema.nl). 448 pages. ISBN:
90-5809-633-7 (bound). "In
1995, two cave sites were excavated on the Bird's Head, the westernmost
peninsula of the Indonesian province of Papua. These are the only two
systematically excavated and fully documented sites in the entire western half
of New Guinea. The stratigraphy, dating and recovered materials are presented
and thoroughly analysed in Pasveer's PhD thesis from Groningen University, the
Netherlands. The
sites, Kria Cave and Toé Cave, are located in a heavily karstified, lowland
area in the interior of the peninsula and have overlapping sequences, together
spanning a period dating back to 26,000 BP. They are situated on either side of
the Ayamaru Lakes, at c. 12 km distance from each other. The faunal analysis
shows that the area was covered in rainforest through time, although the lower
temperatures during the late Pleistocene produced a forest with structural
similarities to a lower montane environment. Analyses of the stone and bone
artefact assemblages suggest that the two sites were used for different
purposes through time. The
faunal assemblages of both sites consist predominantly (75-80%) of remains of
the forest wallaby Dorcopsis muelleri (or Djief in Meybrat language).
This raised the question how one species could be hunted sustainably over
thousands of years. A detailed analysis of the remains and a reconstruction of
the age structure of the hunted Dorcopsis population through time showed that
the caves were actually rarely visited and that the species has never (until
recent times) been under serious hunting pressure. Interestingly, this pattern
remained virtually unchanged in Toé Cave, south of the lakes, while the faunal
composition and age structure of the Dorcopsis sample from Kria Cave, north of
the lakes, suggest that this area was slightly more exploited, which gradually
intensified around c. 5000 BP. The
results of these analyses form an important contribution to the debate
(initiated by Bailey and Headland in the late 1980s) on the possibilities of
rainforest occupation without access to cultivated plants. Clearly, people did
occupy rainforest well before the advent of agriculture in variously parts of
Southeast Asia and the Pacific. But the Bird's Head evidence suggests that lack
of carbohydrates may have been one reason why human population densities in
these environments remained low." Robbins, Joel. 2004. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment
in a Papua New Guinea Society. Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity No.4.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 410 pages. ISBN: 0-520-23799-4
(cloth) and 0-520-23800-1 (paperback). "In
a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes
as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea
in the last four decades. A remote people never directly 'missionized,' the
Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries
living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had
undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a
Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant
sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the
Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to
understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing, he
offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as
a lived religion. Theoretically ambitious and engagingly written, his book
opens a unique perspective on a Melanesian society, religious experience, and
the very nature of rapid cultural change. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations;
Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Heavy
Christmas and a Pig Law for People; Introduction: Christianity and Cultural
Change; PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY; 1. From Salt to the Law:
Contact and the Early Colonial Period; 2. Christianity and the Colonial
Transformation of Regional Relations; 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and
the Localization of the Urapmin Church; PART TWO: LIVING IN SIN; 4.
Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space; 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness,
and Urapmin Morality; 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian
Morality; 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self; 8.
Millennialism and the Contest of Values; Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural
Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid; Notes; References; Index." Sirivii, Josephine Tankunani and Marilyn Taleo Havini. 2004. As
Mothers of the Land: The Birth of the Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom.
Canberra: Pandanus Books. 204 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-043-3 (softcover). "Bougainville
is a matrilineal society where women are the custodians of the land, some with
chiefly roles. Women's participation as a group has advanced the peace process
in Bougainville since their inclusion in the 1997 negotiations. Yet, without a
permanent record, there will be no history of women's valuable contributions to
peace. As Mothers of the Land tells the story of one of the deadliest
crises of the last decades - the Bougainville conflict - and the peace process
that followed, not through the eyes of politicians or military leaders, but
through the personal accounts of Bougainville aboriginal women whose commitment
and determination played a crucial part in the resolution of the conflict. This
book tells the stories of women who had to flee their home and take to the
jungle to escape violence. It tells the stories of women who lived on the run,
giving birth in leaf shelters and caring for the frail and the elderly. It
tells the stories of women who used traditional knowledge and self-reliance to
rebuild community structures in the heart of the jungle. As Mothers of the
Land is about women from all sides of the conflict who rose up against
division and hatred and stood united in their determination to build a lasting
peace. These personal accounts bring invaluable insights into the Bougainville
conflict and peace process. They shed light on Bougainville women's unique
contribution to the search for peace." Townsend, Patricia K. 2003. Palm Sago: Further Thoughts on a Tropical
Starch from Marginal Lands. Working Paper No.49. Canberra: Resource
Management in Asia-Pacific Program, RSPAS, ANU. 19 pages. Retrieved Februari
11, 2004, from the World Wide Web: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/workingpapers.php. "I have attempted to suggest what we might mean
by 'intensification' with respect to sago, with respect to planting, selection
of varieties, managing stands, and harvesting. I should make it clear at this
point that I am not retracting my long-standing contention that the Saniyo are
most usefully seen as hunter-gatherers rather than farmers, particularly when
attempting to understand their society and culture and to make relevant
comparisons with other parts of the world. But over the years I have laboured
that point in a variety of venues. More recently, Jim Roscoe has argued it even
more convincingly (Roscoe 2002). I think it is now safe to suggest that even
these most un-intensive of sago gatherers engage in varied management practices
in their agro-forestry. As they moved into new situations, such as the larger
and more permanent settlements at riverside or airstrip locations, these
techniques of intensification that were already known to them became more
conspicuous in practice. While total population had not increased, pressure on
sago resources near new settlements had increased. Even so, in the upper Sepik
during the early 1980s, the practices related to intensification were only
slight. Planting a cutting of sago was still a rare event, and it was practiced
to diversify the varieties available for cultural reasons. Thinning and pruning
to manage sago stands for better yields, using newly available metal bush
knives and axes, was more noticeable after two decades of post-contact change,
but the technology of sago pounding and washing had not changed
significantly." Veitayaki, Joeli, Bill
Aalbersberg, Alifereti Tawake, Etika Rupeni and Kesaia Tabunakawai. 2003. Mainstreaming
Resource Conservation: The Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network and Its
Influence on National Policy Development. Working
Paper No.42. Canberra: Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, RSPAS, ANU.
10 pages. Retrieved Februari 11, 2004, from the World Wide Web:
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/workingpapers.php. "The experience of
the Fiji Locally Managed Marine Areas (FLMMA) network provides an illustration
of how to mainstream community-based resource management practices that began
with local communities, and were in-turn supported by a Government which has
witnessed the success of community-based intervention. To improve the success
of conservation in the communities and attract attention to its approach, FLMMA
formed a learning portfolio. This is a network of projects that use a common
strategy to achieve a common end and agree to work together to collect, test
and communicate information about the conditions under which the strategy
works, to enable the partners to exchange ideas and experiences. The learning
portfolio enhances collaboration and also ensures that lessons learnt are
shared widely with people in the network. FLMMA is working to increase the
effectiveness of conservation and to ensure that the involvement of people in
the management of their marine resources is both satisfying and meaningful.
Modern science is an important part of the FLMMA approach because it is used to
demonstrate the effects of the use of traditional resource management
practices. Using simple biological, social, and economic monitoring methods,
the villagers are collecting impressive results on resources and habitat
recovery and the associated social and economic improvements in living
conditions. The objectives of improving conservation to protect biodiversity
and improve people's living conditions are important features of the kind of
community-based resource conservation that is now being undertaken in the
Pacific and Asia region. The objectives are also consistent with national
policies for inshore fisheries development and global concerns about poverty
alleviation. The success of community-based conservation in different parts of
Fiji has resulted in long-term support from the communities. It has also
facilitated the articulation of Government fisheries development policies. The
Government has set up a new conservation unit and has formalised its support,
and adopted the FLMMA method of involving local community units in the
sustainable use of their marine resources. Under FLMMA, the success and
combined experiences of conservation practitioners are being used to mainstream
resource conservation and influence policy development in Fiji." POLYNESIA Dunn, Michael. 2003. New Zealand Painting: A Concise History. Revised
and updated edition. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 224 pages. ISBN:
1-86940-297-9 (hardback). "This
book is a completely revised and updated edition of Michael Dunn's essential
overview of New Zealand painting, A Concise History of New Zealand Painting
(1991). It is presented here in a new format as a companion volume to New
Zealand Sculpture: A History (AUP, 2002). To his comprehensive survey of
painting from colonial times Dunn now adds the painters and paintings of the
1990s, bringing the book up to the present day. Several of the original
chapters are extended and a completely new chapter covers the exciting area of
contemporary painting by Maori and Pacific Island artists. The book includes
over 130 colour plates, many of which are new in this edition, along with
nearly 50 black and white reproductions. No reader, no institution can afford
to be without Dunn's two books celebrating the creativity, the diversity and
the talent of New Zealand artists." McLean, Mervyn. 2003. To Tatau Waka: In Search of Maori Music
1958-1979. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 200 pages. ISBN:
1-86940-306-1 (paperback). With audio CD. "In this engrossing book a leading
ethnomusicologist tells the story of his fieldwork recording waiata and other
traditional Maori songs over a span of more than 20 years (1958-1979). McLean's
recordings, now stored in the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music at the
University of Auckland, have been hugely important in revitalising Maori music
in many tribal areas and have preserved the songs and voices of many great
kaumatua. McLean travelled throughout New Zealand, often in primitive
conditions, showing extraordinary dedication and painstaking care in his
important task and meeting and working with most of the Maori leaders of the
period. The book includes over 80 photographs, two maps, a glossary of song
types, an index of names, and an audio CD containing 37 waiata from his
collection, performed by kaumatua whose photographs appear in the book. This
honest, disarming account by a very committed and sensitive expert will appeal
especially strongly appeal to Maori, those who knew the personalities he
encountered, anthropologists and all those with an interest in Maori and
indigenous cultures or World Music." Tielu, Apelu. 2003. Forever in Paradise. Canberra: Pandanus
Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University. 455 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-036-0 (softcover). "This
book is the story of a Samoan born to affluence and privilege. Sent to study in
New Zealand, Solomona Tuisamoa excels academically and rises to prominence in
the Samoan university community. Here he becomes the natural leader of the
Samoans, and is respected and admired by men and women alike. Thrust into the
role of a Paramount Chief on the death of his father, Solomona sacrifices
opportunities for personal advancement in New Zealand in order to return to
Samoa and assume the responsibilities to his family, village and country.
Solomona struggles to preserve the fa'aSamoa, the Samoan way of life, while
trying to effect changes to bring Samoa into the twenty-first century. He
defies cultural expectations in his decision making, and faces the challenges
of being a Paramount Chief. This book introduces the reader to the fascinating
culture of Samoa, its beautiful landscape and its intriguing myths and legends.
In essence a love story, this engaging novel grapples with cultural tensions
and the challenges faced by a traditional community dealing with the economic
imperatives of modern living." |