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NEW BOOKS [These books can
not be purchased from the CPAS. Please send your enquiries directly to the
publishers.] GENERAL Barth, Fredrik,
Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman. 2005 (Spring). One
Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology.
Chicago: University ofv Chicago Press. 408 pages. ISBN: 0-226-03828-9 (cloth)
and 0-226-03829-7 (paper). "One Discipline, Four Ways offers the
first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major
traditions in anthropology - British, German, French, and American. The result
of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre
Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max
Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the
development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and
assesses their future potentials. Moving from E. B.
Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals
the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of
anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile,
articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention
to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered
until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its
separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the
formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World
War II, and the 'fault lines' and promises of contemporary anthropology in the
United States. Table of contents: Foreword by
Chris Hann; Britain and the Commonwealth
by Fredrik Barth: 1. The Rise of Anthropology in Britain, 1830-1898; 2. From
the Torres Straits to the Argonauts, 1898-1922; 3. Malinowski and
Radcliffe-Brown, 1920-1945; 4. The Golden Age, 1945-1970; 5. Enduring Legacies
of the British Tradition; The
German-Speaking Countries by Andre Gingrich: 1. Prelude and Overture: From
Early Travelogues to German Enlightenment; 2. From the Nationalist Birth of
Volkskunde to the Establishment of Academic Diffusionism: Branching Off from
the International Mainstream; 3. From the Late Imperial Era to the End of the
Republican Interlude: Creative Subaltern Tendencies, Larger and Smaller Schools
of Anthropology; 4. German Anthropology during the Nazi Period: Complex
Scenarios of Collaboration, Persecution, and Competition; 5. Anthropology in
Four German-Speaking Countries: Key Elements of Post-World War II Developments
to 1989; The French-Speaking Countries
by Robert Parkin: 1. Pre-Durkheimian Origins; 2. Durkheim and His Era; 3.
Mauss, Other Durkheimians, and Interwar Developments; 4. Structuralism and
Marxism; 5. Practice, Hierarchy, and Postmodernism; The United States by Sydel Silverman: 1. The Boasians and the
Invention of Cultural Anthropology; 2. Postwar Expansion, Materialisms, and
Mentalisms; 3. Bringing Anthropology into the Modern World; 4. Rebellions and
Reinventions; 5. American Anthropology at the End of the Century; References;
Index." Bonnemaison, Joel.
2005. Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography. London:
I.B. Tauris. 160 pages. ISBN: 1860649076 (pb). "Drawing upon
thirty years work which took him to Madagascar, Vanuatu (New Hebrides),
Australia and New Caledonia, Joel Bonnemaison's work presents an original and
refreshing alternative to the more traditional Anglo-American approach to
cultural geography. Bonnemaison provides a true kind of anthro-geography as he
explores questions around the geography of culture and the anthropology of
space. With an introduction by John Agnew, Department Chair, Dept. of
Geography, UCLA." Garden, Donald S.
2005. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History.
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 398 pages. ISBN: 1-57607-868-X (hb). "A
fascinating study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and
the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. Why do kangaroos
hop? Or koala bears nap so often? From how animals cope with the extremes of
the Australian outback to the tragic impact of early human settlement on Easter
Island, this volume provides a scholarly yet accessible survey of the
environmental history of one quarter of the world's surface. Of interest to
students and academics alike, this book provides a much-needed synthesis of the
recent literature on the environmental history of Australia and Oceania.
Charting the creation of the Australian continent from the ancient land mass of
Gondwanaland to the arrival of humans, this book maps out the key trends in the
region's environmental history. Especially
fascinating are the chapters highlighting how successive waves of human
migration created environmental havoc throughout the region, leading to the
collapse of the Easter Island civilization and the spread of nonindigenous flora
and fauna. From the controversies over the reasons why creatures such as the
marsupial lion and the giant kangaroo became extinct to such contemporary
problems as deforestation and global warming, this book contains sobering
lessons for us all." Gross, Claudia, Harriet D. Lyons and
Dorothy A. Counts (eds). 2005. A Polymath Anthropologist: Essays in Honour
of Ann Chowning. Auckland: Department of Anthropology, University of
Auckland. Research in Anthropology and Linguistics Monograph, No. 6. ISBN: 0958368651
(pb). "Contents: Preface; Ann Chowning -
Polymath Anthropologist and Traveller, by Judith Huntsman (with Ann Chowning);
Ann Chowning - Timeline, Judith Huntsman (with Ann Chowning); Part I:
Archaeology and Physical Anthropology:
The Huon Gulf and Its Hinterlands: A Long-Term View of Coastal-Highlands
Interactions, by Pamela Swadling; Stone Axe Blades and Valuables in New
Britain, Papua New Guinea, by Jim Specht; The Stones of Pasismanua Revisited,
by Susan Bulmer; A Review of Dental Morphological Traits in Oceania, by Daris
R. Swindler; Part II: Social and Cultural Anthropology: Why Did
Anthropologists Need to Un-Discover Sex (in the Pacific and Elsewhere)? by
Harriet D. Lyons and Andrew P. Lyons; Sex, Procreation and Menstruation: North
Mekeo and the Trobriands, by Mark Mosko; Sexual Morality in Samoa and Its
Historical Transformations, by Penelope Schoeffel; Marriage, Rank and Political
Process in Ancient Tonga, by Phyllis S. Herda; "We Will Exchange Sisters
Until the World Ends": Inequality, Marriage and Gender Relations in the
Lake Murray-Middle Fly Area, Papua New Guinea, by Mark Busse; Where Women Sit:
"Tradition" and "Development" in the Transformation of
Gender Roles in Nukunonu, Tokelau, by Judith Huntsman; Beyond "His Sisters
and His Cousins and His Aunts": Discourses of Haemophilia and Women's
Experiences in New Zealand, by Julie Park; Development Has Many
Faces:Reflections on Continuity and Change in Papua New Guinea, by Maev
O'Collins; Money Appearing and Disappearing: Notes on Inflation in Papua New
Guinea, by Marilyn Strathern; "Don't Ask for Biscuits": Economic
Decline and Social Change in a Coastal Papuan Village, by Michael
Monsell-Davis; Kawo and Sabu: The Changing Face of Customary Leadership among
the Maisin of Papua New Guinea, by John Barker; Keeping for Giving, Keeping for
Keeping: Christian Property Taboo on Simbo, Solomon Islands, by Christine
Dureau; "Old Man Dog": The Papua New Guinean Dog Who Mourned for His
Master, by Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts; Tawhaki Finds his Way to
the World of Light: Exploring the Meanings of a Maori Myth, by Joan Metge; What
Difference Can Culture Make? A Social Anthropologist Looks at Detective
Fiction, by Claudia Gross; Part III: Linguistics: Ee-z Reading and the
Formation of Words, by Laurie Bauer; A Tale of Ups and Downs in Tokelau, by
Robin Hooper; The Odd Couple: An Unusual Kin Term in Aneityum, by John Lynch;
The Morphology of Some Oceanic Plant Names, by Malcolm Ross; Proto Micronesian
*au, *awu, *ayu, *ai, *ayi, by Ward H. Goodenough; The Meaning(s) of Proto
Oceanic *panua, by Andrew Pawley; Part IV: Teacher, Colleague, Friend:
Recollections of Ann Chowning Teaching at Barnard, by Harriet D. Lyons,
Virginia Greene, Luisa Margolies; Under the Eye of the Supervisor: Ann Chowning
and the Making of an Anthropologist, by Michael W. Young; Ann Chowning: A
Friend in the Field and Beyond, by Jane C. Goodale; Jandals, by James Urry; Part
V: Bibliography: Ann Chowning - A Bibliography 1956-2005, by Kathryn
Creely; Contributors. For any orders,
please contact RAL@auckland.ac.nz (or The Secretary, RAL, Department of
Anthropology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;
phone: +64 9 373 7599, ext. 87662; fax: +64 9 373 7441)." Herda, Phyllis,
Michael Reilly, and David Hilliard (eds). 2005. Vision and Reality in Pacific
Religion. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 316 pages. ISBN:
1-74076-119-7 (pb). For sale in North
America and except Australia. Herda, Phyllis,
Michael Reilly, and David Hilliard (eds). 2006. Vision and Reality in Pacific
Religion. Canberra: Pandanus Books in association with Macmillan Brown
Centre for Pacific Studies. 316 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-119-7 (pb). "This
collection skilfully explores the religious history of the Pacific Islands,
examining the indigenisation of Christianity and other faiths. Regionally
diverse, this collection is premised upon the integration of the many gods or
spiritual beings indigenous to the islands and the diverse understandings of
foreign gods that have developed as a result of contact with missionary
religions." Lange, Raeburn.
2006 (March). The Origins and Nineteenth Century of the Indigenous Christian Ministry
in the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 300
pages. ISBN: 1-74076-176-6 (paper). "Uncovering
the story that belongs to the Pacific Islanders themselves, this book studies
the nature of indigenous ministry in the Pacific. Presented in narrative form
and moving across the Pacific from east to west, the author follows the
chronological movement of Christianity across the region. Focusing on the
stories of indigenous men who worked in their communities as missionaries or
pastoral careers and acknowledging the hidden lives of the women who helped
them, this monograph makes an outstanding contribution to the history of the
Pacific." Langton, Marcia,
Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain (eds). 2004. Honour among Nations? Treaties
and Agreements with Indigenous People. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne
University Press. 272 pages. ISBN: 0-522-85106-1 (pb). "This
important collection emerges from the growing academic and public policy
interest in the area of Indigenous peoples, treaties and agreements -
challenging readers to engage with the idea of treaty and agreement making in
changing political and legal landscapes. Honour Among Nations? contains contributions from both Indigenous and
non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America including
Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, Paul Chartrand and Noel Pearson.
It features a preface by Sir Anthony Mason. This book covers
topics as diverse as treaty and agreement making in Australia, New Zealand and
British Columbia; land, the law, political rights and Indigenous peoples;
maritime agreements; health; governance and jurisdiction; race discrimination
in Australia; the Timor Sea Treaty; copyright and intellectual property issues
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors. Honour Among Nations? makes a significant contribution to international
debates on Indigenous peoples' rights, treaties and agreement making. Supplementary
digital content is available from www.mup.unimelb.edu.au. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Treaties, Agreement Making and the
Recognition of Indigenous Customary Polities; Chapter 2: Indigenous-Settler
Treaty Making in Canada; Chapter 3: The Formulation of Privilege and Exclusion
in Settler States: Land, Law, Political Rights and Indigenous Peoples in
Nineteenth-century Australia and Natal; Chapter 4: Land is Susceptible of
Ownership; Chapter 5: 'Now Balanda Say We Lost Our Land in 1788': Challenges to
the Recognition of Yolngu Law in Contemporary Australia; Chapter 6: Toward
Justice and Reconciliation: Treaty Recommendations of Canada's Royal Commission
on Aboriginal Peoples (1996); Chapter 7: Treaties in British Columbia:
Comprehensive Agreement Making in a Democratic Context; Chapter 8: The Shadow
of the Law and the British Columbia Treaty Process: '[Can] the unthinkable
become common place'? Chapter 9: Treaty Making in New Zealand/Te Hanga Tiriti
ki Aotearoa; Chapter 10: Agreement Making and the Native Title Act; Chapter 11:
Symbolism and Function: From Native Title to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Self-government; Chapter 12: Comprehensive Native Title Negotiations
in South Australia; Chapter 13: Maritime Agreements and the Recognition of
Customary Marine Tenure in the Northern Territory; Chapter 14: Rio Tinto's
Agreement Making in Australia in a Context of Globalisation; Chapter 15: The Framework
Agreements: Intergovernmental Agreements and Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Health; Chapter 16: Race Discrimination in Australia: A Challenge for
Treaty Settlement? Chapter 17: A
Sovereign Text? Copyright, Publishing Agreements and Intellectual Property
Issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors; Chapter 18:
Evaluating Agreements between Indigenous Peoples and Resource Developers;
Chapter 19: Creative Conflict Resolution: The Timor Sea Treaty between
Australia and East Timor." Lansdown, Richard
(ed.). 2006 (March). Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the
Pacific in Western Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 496
pages. ISBN: 0-8248-2902-6 (hb) and 0-8248-3042-3 (pb). "Long before
Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of
undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends
of the earth. First set down by Egyptian storytellers, Greek philosophers, and
Latin poets, such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the
Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful
myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time
Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This
revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences
as the region revealed gaps and anomalies in the 'great chain of being' that
Charles Darwin would begin to address after his momentous visit to the
Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced
similar challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and
for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the
globe. Although most missionary efforts ultimately met with success, others
ended in ignominious retreat. As the century wore on, the region presented
opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, leading to a guilty desire
on the part of some to pull out, along with an equally guilty desire on the
part of others to stay and help. This process was accelerated by the Pacific
War between 1941 and 1945. After more than two millennia of fantasies, the
story of the West's fascination with the insular Pacific graduated to a marked
sense of disillusion that is equally visible in the paintings of Gauguin and
the journalism of the nuclear Pacific. Strangers in the
South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts.
It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers,
naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers - some famous, some obscure.
It begins in 1521 with an account of Guam by Antonio Pigafetta (one of the few
men to survive Magellan's circumnavigation voyage), and ends in the late 1980s
with the writing of an American woman, Joana McIntyre Varawa, as she faces the
personal and cultural insecurities of marriage and settlement in Fiji. It shows
how 'the Great South Sea' has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror"
of the West and one of its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance. Comprehensively
illustrated and annotated, this anthology will introduce readers to a region
central to the development of modern Western ideas." McLaren, John,
A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright (eds). 2004. Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in
British Settler Societies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press. 326 pages. ISBN: 0774810734 (hb). "In the late
18th century, the English jurist William Blackstone famously described property
as 'that sole and despotic dominion.' What Blackstone meant was that property
was an 'absolute right, inherent in every Englishman . . . which consists in
the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions without any control
or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.' In light of the intervening
250 years of colonization, Blackstone's 'despotic dominion' has assumed new and
more ambiguous meanings. It is the ambiguity of the meanings of property and
the tensions that were and still are evident in property disputes with which
this book is concerned. Despotic Dominion brings together the work of scholars whose study of
the evolution of property law in the colonies recognizes the value in locating
property law and rights within the broader political, economic, and
intellectual contexts of those societies. The stimulus for this new
interdisciplinary scholarship has emerged from litigation and political action
for the resolution of questions of Aboriginal title and other disputes over
property rights in several former settler colonies, most notably Australia,
Canada, and New Zealand. As the essays in this book demonstrate, a significant
part of the recent explosion in interest and speculation about property rights
relates historically to the securing of a more reliable cultural context for
assessing these claims. For this reason, Despotic
Dominion will be of interest not only to students and researchers of
colonial history, but also to scholars of native studies and law, as well as
those interested in the contested terrain of property rights. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; 1) Property Rights in the Colonial
Imagination and Experience, by John McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright; 2)
Encountering the Spirit in the Land: ' Property' in a Kinship-based Legal Order, by Richard
Overstall; 3) Paper Empires: The Legal Basis of French and English Ventures in
North America, by Brian Slattery; 4) Concepts of Economic Improvement and the
Social Construction of Property Rights: Highlights from the English-speaking
World, by John C. Weaver; 5) Warm Reception in a Cold Climate: English Property
Law and the Suppression of the Canadian Legal Identity, by Bruce Ziff; 6) Land
Law, Liberalism, and the Agrarian Ideal: British North America, 1750-1920, by
Philip Girard; 7) When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the
State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s, by Rusty Bitterman and Margaret
McCallum; 8) ' This Remnant of Feudalism' : Primogeniture and Political Culture
in Colonial New South Wales, with Some Canadian Comparisons, by A.R. Buck; 9)
"The Lady Vanishes": Women and Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century
New South Wales, by Nancy E. Wright; 10) The Establishment and Preservation of
Hutterite Communalism in North America: 1870-1925, by Alvin J. Esau; 11) The
Failed Experiments: The Demise of Doukhobor Systems of Communal Property Land
Holding in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1999, by John McLaren; 12)
Co-existence and Colonization on Pastoral Leaseholds in South Australia,
1851-99, by Robert Foster; 13) Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the
Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-82, by Douglas Harris;
Afterword, by John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E. Wright; Contributors;
Index." Richardson, Brian
W. 2005. Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 240 pages. ISBN: 0-7748-1189-7
(hb). "Before
Captain Cook’s three voyages, to Europeans the globe was uncertain and
dangerous; after, it was comprehensible and ordered. Written as a conceptual
field guide to the voyages, Longitude and
Empire offers a significant rereading of both the expeditions and modern
political philosophy. More than any other work, printed accounts of the voyages
marked the shift from early modern to modern ways of looking at the world. The
globe was no longer divided between Europeans and savages but populated instead
by an almost overwhelming variety of national identities. Cook’s voyages
took the fragmented and obscure global descriptions available at the time and
consolidated them into a single, comprehensive textual vision. Locations became
fixed on the map and the people, animals, plants, and artifacts associated with
them were identified, collected, understood, and assimilated into a world
order. This fascinating account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook’s
voyages and how they affected the European world view." Stewart-Harawira,
Makere. 2005. The New Imperial Order: Indigenous Responses to Globalization.
London: Zed Books. 288 pages. ISBN: 1-84277-528-6 (hb) and 1-84277-529-4 (pb). "The New Imperial Order discusses the
political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological
grounds upon which the emergent global order is based. Starting from a Maori
perspective it examines the development of international law and the world
order of nation states. In engaging with these issues across macro and micro
levels, the international arena, the national state and forms of regionalism
are identified as sites for the reshaping of the global politico/economic order
and the emergence of Empire. Overarching these problematics is the emergence of
a new form of global domination in which the connecting roles of militarism and
the economy, and the increase in technologies of surveillance and control have
acquired overt significance. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; 1. Of Order and Being: Towards an Indigenous
Global Ontology; 2. Indigenous Peoples and the World Order of Sovereign States;
3. Shaping the Liberal International Order; 4. Contested Sites: State
Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination; 5. Global Hegemony and the
Construction of World Government; 6. Globalization, Regionalization and the
Neoliberal State: Local Engagement in New Zealand; 7. Global Governance and the
Return of Empire; Conclusion: The Spiral Turns: Crisis and Transformation: An
Indigenous Response; Epilogue: Writing as Politics." Tcherkézoff, Serge
and Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon (eds). 2005. The
Changing South Pacific: Identities and Transformations. Translation
Nora Scott. Canberra: Pandanus Books. Translation of: Tcherkézoff, Serge
and Françoise Marsaudon (eds). (1997). Le Pacifique-Sud
aujourd'hui: Identités et transformations culturelles. Paris: Centre
National de la Recherche Scientific Éditions. "The
societies of the south Pacific are changing rapidly. In Papua New Guinea, the
inhabitants of high valleys have discovered only recently that they are citizen
of a state. In Australia, the Aborigines have taken over their colonial label
and made it the symbol of their claims. In western Polynesia, where certain
societies still retain traditional aspects ancient sacred hierarchy, the
question at stake concerns the adoption of political systems, democracy for
example. Based on field works conducted sometimes during more than twenty
years, this book aims to show the diversity and the complexity of these
transformations, and also how peoples of the Pacific who are confronted by them
are modifying their cultural identity." Reviews:
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en
Volkenkunde, 157(1), 2001: 178-180 (by H.J.M. Claessen). AUSTRALIA Batty, Philip,
Lindy Allen, and John Morton (eds). 2004. The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer.
Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Publishing. 240 pages. 0-522-85100-2
(hb). " TIn 1894
Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition,
the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank
Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500
glass-plate photographs, 3,000 feet of moving film and recordings of Aboriginal
songs on wax cylinder phonograph. The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is
now regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records
of Aboriginal life in Australia. This extraordinary
collection recorded with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of
Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions and was to be one of the first
major template for European Australia's understanding of indigenous
Australians. This expanded, new
edition of The Photographs of Baldwin
Spencer includes stunning panoramic images of the Top End that have never
before been published, as well as essays by prominent thinkers in this field,
such as John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy, Nicolas Peterson and Philip Jones. The
essays give us a way to understand and consider Spencer's work, the
collaboration with Gillen and importantly, how the present generation of
Aboriginal Australians view their work. The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer will remain one of the most important
records of Aboriginal people at the time of early white settlement. With more
than 140 powerful images including stunning portraits and extraordinary
documentation of ceremonies and traditions, this is a unique and valuable
archive. " Coleman, Elizabeth
Burns. 2005. Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation. Aldershot, UK and
Williston, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 206 pages. ISBN: 0-7546-4403-0 (hb).
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series. "The belief
held by Aboriginal people that their art is ultimately related to their
identity, and to the continued existence of their culture, has made the
protection of indigenous peoples' art a pressing matter in many postcolonial
countries. The issue has prompted calls for stronger copyright legislation to
protect Aboriginal art. Although this
claim is not particular to Australian Aboriginal people, the Australian
experience clearly illustrates this debate. In this work, Elizabeth Burns
Coleman analyses art from an Australian Aboriginal community to interpret
Aboriginal claims about the relationship between their art, identity and
culture, and how the art should be protected in law. Through her study of
Yolngu art, Coleman finds Aboriginal claims to be substantially true. This is
an issue equally relevant to North American debates about the appropriation of
indigenous art, and the book additionally engages with this literature. Contents: Series Editors' preface (by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern);
Mapping the problem; Cultural appropriation; Culture and property; Domestic questions;
Identity and images; Religion and significance; Art fraud and the ontology of
painting; Applying the criteria for authenticity; Insignia and collective
entities; Cultural vandalism; Interpreting Aboriginal claims as rights; Freedom
of expression and insignia; Responding to Aboriginal claims; Bibliography;
Index. Extracts from this
title are available to view: Full
contents list; Chapter
1 - Mapping the problem." Dunbar-Hall, Peter
and Chris Gibson. 2004. Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal
Music in Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales. 296 pages.
ISBN: 0868406228 (pb). " This is the
first comprehensive book on contemporary Aboriginal music in Australia. The
names of many well-known Aboriginal artists are scattered through the book's
pages, including such household names as Ernie Bridge, Kev Carmody, Troy
Cassar-Daley, Coloured Stone, Jimmy Little, Archie Roach, the Warumpi Band and,
of course, Yothu Yindi. The book includes a Discography of the artists featured
in the book." McKnight, David.
2005. Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The Quest for Power in North
Queensland. Aldershot, UK and Williston, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 296
pages. ISBN: 0-7546-4465-0 (hb). Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and
the Indo-Pacific Series. "This is a
fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and
sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal Community, drawing on David McKnight's
extensive research on Mornington Island. The case studies, which occurred both
before and after a Presbyterian Mission was established on the island, allow
McKnight to show how the complexities of kin ties and increased sexual
competition help to explain incidences of violence and sorcery, without
resorting to psychiatric justifications. He demonstrates that kin ties both
stimulated conflict and helped to mitigate it. Following on from
McKnight's previous book, Going the
Whiteman's Way (Ashgate 2004), Of
Marriage, Violence and Sorcery offers an archive of valuable primary
materials, drawing on the author's forty-year knowledge of the community on
Mornington Island. Contents: Preface; History of the Wellesley Islands; Marriage: Lardil and
Yangkaal: endogamy and exogamy; Kaiadilt endogamy and exogamy; Violence: Early
time fights; Baya! Baya! Fight! Fight!; Violence in the 1970s; Reasons for
violence; Sorcery: Sorcerers and clever men; Spearing in the Bush; Recent
sorcery cases; Some general observations about sorcery; All the Puripuri men
are dead; Appendix: sorcery cases; Bibliography; Index." Mawurndjul, John.
2005. Rarrk - John Mawurndjul:
Zeitreise in Nordaustralien. Edited by Christian Kaufmann. Basel:
Schwabe Verlag (http://www.schwabe.ch/). Distributed for Museum Tinguely. 238
pages. ISBN: 3-7965-2201-7 (Englisch) and 3-7965-2187-8 (German). With a
preface by Guido Magnaguagno und Clara Wilpert. "John
Mawurndjul, im Jahre 2003 mit dem renommierten Clemenger Preis für
Zeitgenössische Kunst in Australien ausgezeichnet, und sein Werk stehen im
Zentrum dieses Bandes. Rarrk charakterisiert eine Musterungsart und Malweise,
die Kreuzschraffur, die der Künstler besonders gut beherrscht. John
Mawurndjul wurde im Jahre 1952 auf dem Land seines Klans in West-Arnhemland,
Nordaustralien, geboren. Das Malen hat er noch ganz traditionell beim Anbringen
von Mustern auf dem Körper von Initianden erlernt. Schon früh begann auch John
Mawurndjul mit dem Bemalen von flachgepressten Eukalyptusrinden. Angeregt von
den Felsbildern ferner Vorfahren, fand John Mawurndjul eine eigenständige Art
und Weise des Umgangs mit den überlieferten Bildvorstellungen: Er setzt sie
heute mit neuen Absichten und in ganz neuer Form um. Das Format ist gross und
mächtig, das Material für die Malfläche liefert zwar immer noch die Rinde des
Eukalyptusbaumes, aber die Erd- und Naturfarben: roter Ocker, gelber Ocker,
feine Knoten von Naturkreide, Holzkohle werden bewusst mit einem modernen,
wasserlöslichen Bindemittel angerührt. Schrittweise
sind Mawurndjuls Bilder so über die Aboriginel-Ikonographie - die Darstellungen
etwa der Donnergeister oder der allmächtigen Regenbogenschlange als eines
lebenbegründenden und lebenzerstörenden Weltwesens - hinausgewachsen. Auf dem
Weg über das Kunstzentrum Maningrida sind schon diese früheren Bilder von John
Mauwurndjul in die Welt hinausgereist. Ermutigt vom Erfolg, ging der Maler
seinen eigenen Weg weiter. In anscheinend völlig abstrakten Bildern versteckt
er in einer weiteren wichtigen Schaffensphase eine zweite Ebene von
Bildelementen, die auf tiefere Übereinstimmungen zwischen der sichtbaren und
der unsichtbaren Welt hinweisen sollen. Im
vorliegenden Buch kommt John Mawurndjul mit 75 seiner eigenen Werke zu Wort,
aber auch in einem Interview mit der künstlerischen Leiterin von Maningrida
Arts and Culture, Apolline Kohen. In Texten zu seinem Leben und seinem Wirken,
die Forscher wie Jon Altman und Luke Taylor verfasst haben, begegnen wir ihm
als Zeitgenossen; seine Ausnahmebegabung wird deutlich in der Würdigung seiner
Werkspur durch Judith Ryan, Kuratorin der National Gallery of Victoria. Jean
Kohen zeigt, wie Mawurndjul neuerdings das Radieren für sich entdeckt hat und
wie er die neue Technik meistert. Philippe Peltier leitet den Leser
schrittweise zum Sehen an, von den oberflächlichen Bildstrukturen zu einer
möglichen Sichtweise auf den Inhalt dieser Kunstwerke. Die
Publikation erscheint zur Ausstellung, die das Museum Tinguely in
Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum der Kulturen Basel realisiert. Ziel dieser von
Bernhard Lüthi initiierten Ausstellung ist es, John Mawurndjul und sein Werk als
Teile der Weltgegenwartskunst vorzustellen und zu erhellen." Morton,
John (ed.). 2004. Native Tribes, Imperial Scribes: History, Ethnography and the
Postcolonialist Critique of Spencer and Gillen. Carlton, Victoria:
Melbourne University Publishing. 288 pages. ISBN: 0-522-85109-6 (pb). "Commentaries
on the historical context of Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen's work on the
native tribes of Central Australia, as well as assessments of their ethnography
and critical readings of their texts in the light of postcolonialism. Scholars
include John Mulvaney, Nicolas Peterson, Barry Hill and Gaye Sculthorpe. [Retrieved
November 22, 2005, from the World Wide Web as 'In print': http://www.eurospanonline.com/
but not found at http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/
.]" MELANESIA Beran,
Harry and Barry Craig (eds). 2005. Shields of Melanesia. Honolulu: University of
Hawai'i Press. 408 pages. ISBN:
0-8248-2732-5 (cloth). "Shields of Melanesia is the first comprehensive book
of its kind and illustrates more than 100 types of shields from all cultural
areas of Melanesia that used such objects. Around 80 percent of the shields
illustrated have never before been published. The book
also explains why the use of fighting shields in the South Pacific was confined
to Melanesia. Adrienne Kaeppler, one of the foremost authorities on the
cultures of Micronesia and Polynesia, has contributed a chapter on the
protective devices other than shields that were used in those societies, and
explains why shields were not used. The
typology of war shields used in the book is based on an exhaustive survey of
the literature, on the field experiences of the authors, and on a survey of the
collections of the major Australian museums. Two
recent books on shields covered these objects from most parts of the world,
including Melanesia. This book, however, illustrates twice as many types of
Melanesian shields as the previous books, and includes ten classifications
identified and published for the first time. Barry
Craig's introduction to the book provides an overview of the war shields of
Melanesia, drawing on the results of the other chapters. Jim Specht has
contributed the Foreword. 243 illus., 141 in
color, 13 maps . Harry Beran started
collecting and later researching the art of the Massim region of Papua New
Guinea after a visit to the Trobriand Islands in 1969. He has made a number of
short study visits to the region, and is building a modest resource centre of
Massim art. He was senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of
Wollongong, New South Wales. Barry Craig was awarded
a PhD in visual arts at Flinders University in South Australia. From 1980 to 1983
he as curator of anthropology at the PNG National Museum, and he has been
curator of foreign ethnology at the South Australian Museum since 1995." [What
happened to War Shields, announced in
Oceania Newsletter 27? Craig,
Barry and Harry Beran (eds). 2001. War
Shields: New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands. Bathurst, NSW: Crawford
House Publishing. 200 pages. "This
is the first comprehensive book about the war shields of Melanesia. It
illustrates more than 100 types of shield from all culture areas of Melanesia
that used such objects. Around 80 per cent of the shields illustrated have
never before been published. The book also explains why the use of fighting
shields in the South Pacific was restricted to Melanesia. Adrienne Kaeppler,
one of the foremost authorities on the cultures of Micronesia and Polynesia,
has contributed a chapter on the protective devices other than shields that
were used in these societies, and explains why the shields were not used. The
typology of war shields used in the book is based on an exhaustive survey of
the literature, on the field experience of the authors, and on a survey of the
collections of the major Australian museums."] Drooglever,
P.J. 2005. Een daad van vrije keuze: De Papoea's van westelijk Nieuw-Guinea en de
grenzen van het zelfbeschikkingsrecht. Amsterdam: Boom. 700 pages.
ISBN: 90-850617-8-4 (hb). "'Ons
laatste oorlogje' is het wel genoemd: de diplomatieke en zelfs nog even
militaire strijd rond Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea. Bij de onafhankelijkheid van
Indonesië hield Nederland vast aan het bezit van dit (halve) eiland. Daarna
groeide de druk op Nederland om ook Nieuw-Guinea aan Indonesië over te dragen.
Dit mondde in 1962 uit in een spannend diplomatiek steekspel, met Soekarno en
Joseph Luns als hoofdpersonen en met interessante bijrollen voor John F. Kennedy,
zijn broer Robert, John Foster Dulles en, niet te vergeten, de journalist
Willem Oltmans. P.J.
Drooglever staat in dit heldere overzichtswerk stil bij de geschiedenis van
Nieuw-Guinea en de Papoea-bevolking. Hij laat zien waarom Nederland zo lang
ijverde voor het behoud van deze kolonie. Het baatte niet: in augustus 1962
droeg Nederland, onder zware internationale druk, de kolonie over aan de
Verenigde Naties. In 1969 werd Nieuw-Guinea officieel ingelijfd door Indonesië,
waarbij alle garanties voor de Papoea's waardeloos bleken te zijn." King,
Peter. 2004. West Papua and Indonesia since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy or
Chaos? Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. 240 pages. ISBN:
0868406767 (pb). " This book reviews the long guerilla struggle of the 'Organisasi Papua
Merdeka' (OPM) for a Free Papua, and traces the rise of a non-violent
independence movement alongside it, the Papua Council, following the fall from
power of Indonesia's military dictator, General Suharto, in 1998." Lagerberg,
Kees. 2005. Schuldig zwijgen: De Papua in zijn bestaan bedreigd. Utrecht:
Uitgeverij IJzer. 301 pages. ISBN: 90-74328-92-X (pb). "Nederlands
Nieuw-Guinea (het tegenwoordige Papua) werd formeel in 1963 overgedragen aan de
republiek Indonesië. Er ging een periode van toenemende militaire en
diplomatieke spanningen tussen Indonesië en Nederland aan vooraf. De Verenigde
Staten dwongen in 1962 met de Overeenkomst van New York een akkoord tussen
beide landen af, waarin de nauwst betrokkenen, de Papua's, niet of nauwelijks
waren gekend. Het doek was gevallen. De spanning was geweken en een tijdperk
was afgesloten. Nederland voelde zich bevrijd van een zware last. De relatie
met Indonesië herstelde zich daarna snel. Regering, parlement en het overgrote
deel van de vaderlandse media deden hun best om de kwestie, die jarenlang het
binnenlands politieke toneel had beheerst, voorgoed naar de achtergrond te
dringen. Dit schuldig zwijgen duurde voort tijdens en na de zogenaamde Act of
Free Choice die de Papua's in 1969 kregen voorgeschoteld. Deze volksstemming,
gehouden onder supervisie van de Verenigde Naties, kon de toets van het
volkenrecht niet doorstaan, maar werd internationaal snel gelegitimeerd. Ook
door Nederland. Daarna werd het vrijwel stil rond Papua. Geheel ten onrechte.
De Papua's werden hardhandig onderworpen aan de Nieuwe Orde. Het is
de verdienste van Kees Lagerberg dat hij jarenlang systematisch, consistent en
strijdbaar de wijze waarop Nederland afstand heeft gedaan van zijn laatste
bastion in de Oost, heeft bekritiseerd zonder in (neo)koloniale ressentimenten
en reflexen te vervallen. In de voorliggende publicatie 'Schuldig zwijgen' laat
hij op basis van niet eerder vrijgegeven archiefmateriaal, vraaggesprekken met
nauw betrokkenen en recente studies op een onthullende wijze zien wat zich in
die bewogen jaren in en rond Papua heeft afgespeeld en wat de rol van de
belangrijkste actoren hierin is geweest. Toch wil dit boek meer zijn dan de
zoveelste studie over de kwestie Nieuw-Guinea. Het accent ligt vooral op de
donkere periode die volgde op de machtsoverdracht. Dat maakt deze studie uniek
en instrumenteel. Het is een gefundeerde aanklacht tegen het schuldig zwijgen
maar tegelijk een hartstochtelijke oproep om dit zwijgen te doorbreken en de
Papua's te steunen in hun strijd om erkenning van een rechtmatige plaats onder
de zon." Miyazaki,
Hirokazu. 2004. The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge.
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 216 pages. ISBN: 0804748861 (cloth). "The Method of Hope examines the
relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced
in various forms of knowledge - Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. The
book discusses the hope entailed in a wide range of Fijian knowledge practices
such as archival research, gift giving, Christian church rituals, and business
practices, and compares it with the concept of hope in the work of philosophers
such as Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Richard Rorty. The book
participates in on-going debates in social theory about how to reclaim the
category of hope in progressive thought. The book marks a significant departure
from other such efforts by combining a detailed ethnographic analysis of the
production of hope in Fijian knowledge practices with an imaginative reading of
well-known philosophical texts. The aim is to carve out a space for a new kind
of relationship between anthropology and philosophy." Stewart, Pamela J
and Andrew Strathern (eds). 2005. Expressive Genres and Historical Change:
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan. Aldershot, UK and Williston,
VT: Ashgate Publishing. 284 pages. ISBN: 0-7546-4418-9 (hb). Anthropology and
Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific. "This
collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how
expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance
to social organization. Research from New Guinea, Indonesia and Taiwan is used
to assess how historical changes modify these forms of expression to adjust to
the social and political needs of the moment. The volume is
unique in exploring the significance of expressive genres for the social
processes of coping with and adjusting to change, either from outside forces or
from internal ones. The contributions detail first-hand fieldwork, often
conducted over a period of many years, and with each contributor bringing their
experience to bear on both the aesthetic and the analytical aspects of their
materials. Comparative in scope, the volume covers Austronesian and
non-Austronesian speakers in the wider Indo-Pacific region. Contents: Introduction, by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Chanted
tales in the New Guinea Highlands of today: a comparative study, by Alan
Rumsey; Duna Pikono: a popular contemporary genre in the Papua New Guinea
Highlands, by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; 'Our Heart Always
Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': sacred songs and the
revitalization of Indigenous religion among the Indonesian Ngaju, by Anne
Schiller; Calling on the ancestors to stop crime: ritual performance in an age
of intermittent violence, by Janet Hoskins; The camera is working: Paiwan
aesthetics and performances in Taiwan, by Tai-li Hu; The aesthetics of
politics: transforming genres and meanings in Melanesia, by Lisette Josephides;
Melpa songs and ballads: junctures of sympathy and desire in Mount Hagen, Papua
New Guinea, by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Emphatic speech,
expressive genres, and the dancing-songs of the Eipo and Yalenang (Eastern
Mountains of West Papua), by Volker Heeschen; Index." Tjibaou,
Jean-Marie. 2006 (January). La présence kanak. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press. 350 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-175-8 (pb). Translated by
Helen Fraser and John Trotter. For sale in North
America and Asia Pacific (except Australia). Tjibaou,
Jean-Marie. 2006 (January). La présence kanak. Canberra:
Pandanus Books. 350 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-175-8 (pb). Translated by Helen Fraser
and John Trotter. "Published in
French in 1996, La Présence Kanak is an edited collection of interviews with
and essays by the charismatic Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936-1989). This
English translation reveals the remarkable scope of Tjibaou's political career,
his rhetorical power, his passionately held beliefs and his persuasive ideology
of Kanak unity and independence. Through his intellectual legacy, the reader is
given an unparalled insight into the social and political dynamic of New
Caledonia and the Kanak people." MICRONESIA Buck, Reverend.
2005. Island of Angels: The Growth of the Church on Kosrae. Honolulu:
Westmark Publishing (www.bookshawaii.net).
ISBN: 0-9753740-6-0. "More than
150 years of church and secular history are chronicled in Island of Angels, including the author's own observations and those
of historical figures within and outside the Kosrae Congregational Church.
Author Reverend Buck is a United Church of Christ clergyman who served the
Church on Kosrae and in the Marshall Islands from 1958 to 1981. One of four island
states comprising the Federated States of Micronesia, the onetime kingdom of
Kosrae is now home to 8,000 islanders, most of whom are devout members of the
Kosrae Congregational Church. The book was begun in conjunction with the
Church's 150th anniversary in 2002. Each chapter in Island of Angels is prefaced by a
summary in the Kosraean language. The book includes 32 pages of color and
black-and-white photographs, as well as detailed appendices of Kosraean kings,
church leaders, missionaries and others. Pacific studies
scholars will appreciate the wealth of knowledge compiled from journal accounts
and church documents." POLYNESIA Culliney, John L.
2006 (January). Islands in the Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawai'i. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press. 464 pages. ISBN: 0-8248-2947-6 (hb). Revised
edition. First published in 1988. "First
published in 1988, Islands in a Far Sea
offers a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai'i. This thoroughly revised
edition begins with an up-to-date account of the geological formation and
shaping of the Islands, their colonization by plants and animals, and the
patterns of ecology and evolution that unfolded in nurturing seas and on
breath-taking landscapes. This book tells
the story of human interaction with Hawai'i's native landscapes and rich
biological heritage. The author's accessible language allows readers to grasp
basic geological and biological principles and to understand the perhaps
surprising vulnerability of Hawaiian ecosystems - which have coevolved with
volcanoes - to human impact. Islands in a Far Sea includes many well-documented
historical examples of such impacts, featuring growth and greed, fears and
foibles as humans confronted endemic nature in Hawai'i. Citing a large array of
sources, the author makes it possible for interested readers to probe more
deeply the changes in natural systems that have ensued on all of the Hawaiian
Islands. To date the result has been the tragic reduction of a unique and
benign biota. However, the book holds out hope that current efforts to protect
what is left of Hawai'i's flora and fauna in their remaining wild settings may
yet succeed." Dening, Greg.
2004. Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self.
Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. 384 pages. ISBN: 0-522-84886-9
(hb). "Beach Crossings is a book of
extraordinary richness that can be read on many levels. It crosses genres as
well as beaches, blending memoir and social history, ethnography and elegy,
cultural studies and testament. Greg Dening
presents the accounts of early European visitors - sailors, missionaries,
soldiers, beachcombers, whalers - to Fenua'enata, the Marquesas Islands. He
examines these dusty documents not only to tell the visitors' stories but also
to reveal what their unseeing eyes were seeing, life on the other side of the
beach as the islanders actually lived it. These accounts are the starting point
for insights into the theme of the book, the 'in-between'. Dening explores the
divide between land and water, the beach that is both an exit space and an
entry space, where edginess rules. Dening's elegant
prose moves effortlessly from detailed descriptions of the life of Enata, the
Marquesans, to reflections on the significance of cannibalism and tattoos, to
analysis of the process of writing, the methods of scholarship, the discovery
of the past, the possibilities of knowing. The story encompasses Dening's own
voyaging during a brilliant academic career spanning several decades, his life
search, his beaches of memory. Here are his struggles with faith, with the
Catholic Church and his spiritual advisers, with history as discipline and
performance, with teaching as storytelling and as footprints on the sand." |