NEW BOOKS [These books can
not be purchased from the CPAS. Please send your enquiries directly to the
publishers.] [Not all the books
in this section are strictly new, but those that are not, were not before
listed in the Oceania Newsletter.] GENERAL Anderson, Atholl, Kaye Green and Foss Leach
(eds). 2007. Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture.
Dunedin: Otago University Press. 319 pages. ISBN: 978-1-877372-45-2 (hb). "Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of
the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for
taking fish they are vastly ingenious.' Hence the title of this book on Pacific
material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement
of peoples and the development of their technologies. Bringing together an impressive group of scholars of
Pacific archaeology, the editors have designed the book as both a thoroughly
up-to-date and wide-ranging survey and as a festschrift for museum
archaeologist Janet Davidson, until recently based at The Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa. Contributors: Atholl Anderson, J. Stephen Athens,
Helene Martinsson-Wallin and Karen Stothert, Susan Bulmer, David V. Burley and
Richard Shutler Jr, Geoffrey Clark and Duncan Wright, Peter Gathercole, Roger
C. Green, Geoffrey Irwin, Rod Wallace and Stephanie Green, Kevin L. Jones,
Adrienne L Kaeppler, Foss Leach, Helen Leach, Sean Mallon, Nigel Prickett,Paul
Rainbird, Yoshiko H. Sinoto, Ian Smith, Jim Specht, Katherine Szabo, and Moira
White. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Early Maori disc
pendants; 3. Gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village; 4. Cooking with pots
- again; 5. Metal Pa Kahawai; 6. A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave; 7.
Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island; 8.
Arthur of HMS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall; 9. Me'a lalanga and the category
Koloa; 10. Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear; 11. Reading Pacific pots; 12. The
rise of the Saudeleur; 13. A study of gorges from the Gogna-Cove Beach Site,
Guam; 14. The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei; 15.
Shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex; 16. The material culture of
Makira; 17. Shaft-hole stone implements of New Britain; 18. Pottery styles at
Wanelek, Papua New Guinea; 19. Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the
collecting of Pacific material cultures. Atholl Anderson is a Pacific prehistorian based at
Australian National University in Canberra. He has published many scholarly
books and articles on New Zealand and Pacific prehistory and ethnohistory. Kaye
C. Green was a Pacific field archaeologist from 1958 to 1975, when she joined
the New Zealand Department of Conservation as manager of publishing and science
communication. She is now retired and lives near Wellington. Foss Leach is a
Pacific prehistorian who was based at Otago University until 1987, when he
moved to the Museum of New Zealand. He is now retired and lives in the
Marlborough Sounds." Baldacchino, Godfrey (ed.). 2007. A
World of Islands: An Island Studies Reader. Luqa, Malta and
Charlottetown, Canada: Agenda Academic Publishers and Institute of Island
Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. 640 pages. ISBN: 978-99932-86-10-3
(pb). "Close to 10% of the world's population - some
600 million people - live on islands today. One fourth of the world's sovereign
states consist of islands or archipelagos. The combined land area and exclusive
economic zone of the world's islands takes up over one sixth of the Earth's
surface. Islands have pioneered the emergence of such disciplines as
biogeography and anthropology; they are typical 'hot spots' for both biological
diversity and international political tension. Islands offer distinct
identities and spaces in an increasingly homogenous and placeless world. A World of Islands provides a global,
research-based, comprehensive and pluri-disciplinary overview of the study of
islands. The expertise and insights of 42 scholars and contributors offer a
uniuqe collection of theoretical principles, ideas, observations and policy
proposals from, and for, the study of islands and island life. Contents: Editorial Introduction, by Godfrey
Baldacchino; 1. Definitions and Typologies, by Stephen Royle; 2. Locations and
Concentrations, by Christian Depraetere and Arthur Dahl; 3. Formations and
Environments, by Patrick Nunn; 4. Evolution, by Andrew Berry; 5. Flora, by
Diana Percy, Stephen Blackmore and Quentin Cronk; 6. Fauna, by R. J. Sam Berry;
7. Archaeology, by Atholl Anderson; 8. Epidemiology, by Andrew Cliff, Peter
Haggett and Matthew Smallman-Raynor; 9. War and Security, by Barry Bartmann;
10. Governance, by Edward Warrington and David Milne; 11. Political Economy, by
Geoff Bertram and Bernard Poirine; 12. Tourism, by Stefan Gossling and Geoffrey
Wall; 13. Migration, by John Connell; 14. Gentrification and Space Wars, Eric
Clark, Karin Johnson, Emma Lundholm and Gunnar Malmberg; 15. Futures and
Sustainability, by a panel of nineteen contributors; 16. Island Studies
Resources, by Graeme Robertson." Connell, John and Barbara Rugendyke (eds).
2008 (March). Tourism at the Grassroots: Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific.
London and New York: Routledge. 320 pages. ISBN: 978-0-415-40555-3 (hb). "In two regions where tourism is of considerable
economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably
few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift
towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism,
has extended the reach of tourism into more remote and fragile environments.
This shift has drawn more local people in rural and remote areas into a partly
tourism economy, involving them as participants in the tourist industry. Yet
little is known about who have been the beneficiaries of these developments. This new collection focuses on both the interactions
between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level,
considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes. It traces
changes in structures of vulnerability as tourism becomes more prominent, the
role of tourism in community development (or localised tension) and examines
issues of governance, the role of tour operators as intermediaries, cultural
change and other local impacts. In short, it examines the changing role of
tourism in local development (or its absence). The book includes chapters on the Sepik of Papua New
Guinea (Eric Silverman), Vanuatu (Prue Robinson and John Connell), Fiji (Yoko
Kanemasu), Samoa (Regina Scheyvens), and Easter Island (Grant McCall), and
others on Tibet, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bali, and Lombok." Cope, Gordon. 2007. So: We Sold Our House and Ran
Away to the South Pacific. Calgary: Fifth House Books. 214 pages. ISBN:
1894856996 (hc). "From the author of A Paris Moment comes a tongue-in-cheek tale of one couple's quest
for happiness on the other side of the globe. We all dream of escaping the
boring routine of getting up, going to work, and paying the bills. Find out
what happens when Gordon Cope and his wife, Linda, follow that dream-to the
South Pacific. From the remote Cook Islands to the hustle and bustle of Sydney
Australia, from the new agey cities of New Zealand to Perry Mason's orchid garden
in Fiji, Gordon and his wife Linda search for happiness - and the best
sauvignon blanc in the southern hemisphere. Along the way they encounter a host of memorable
characters: Sven, the Swedish biker with a body of tattoos; Greg, the James
Cagney look-alike, whose dream is to open an espresso bar in one of Sydney's
roughest neighbourhoods; Papa Manu, whose Cook Island-style birthday parties
give new meaning to the term 'party crashers'; Lovestruck Rarotonga teens
Violet and Porkchop, and, of course, the Wizard of New Zealand. From taking
part in a Cook Islands racquetball competition to staring down a grassfire in
Australia, from chasing crazy cockroaches to ducking kooky kookaburras, Gordon
Cope takes you on a rollicking adventure to the world down under. Gordon Cope came to Calgary to work in the oil patch,
but his love for writing led him to freelance journalism and a career as a
feature writer and business reporter. In 1993, Cope and his wife, Linda, quit
their jobs, sold their house, and ran away to the South Pacific. Since then,
they have lived in London and Paris and travelled around the world. They
currently live in Calgary with their cat China. Visit Gordon's website at http://www.aparismoment.com
for more information on the author and his books, including sample chapters,
photos and recipes. Listed as recent addition to the University of the
South Pacific Library in Suva." Hamilton, Paula and Linda Shopes (eds).
2008. Oral History and Public Memories. Chicago: Temple University
Press. 320 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59213-141-9 (pb) "Oral History and Public Memories is the first book to explore the
relationship between the well-established practice of oral history and the
burgeoning field of memory studies. In the past, oral historians have generally
privileged the individual narrator, frequently fetishizing the interview
process without fully understanding that interviews are only one form of
memory-making. Historians engaged in memory studies, on the other hand, have
asked broader questions - about the social and cultural processes at work in
remembrance, for example. What distinguishes these essays from much work in
oral history is their focus not on the experiences of individual narrators, but
on the broader cultural meanings of oral history narratives. What distinguishes
them from other work in memory studies is their grounding in real events. Taken
together, these contributions explain the processes by which oral histories
move beyond interviews with individual people to become articulated memories
shared by others. Contributors
include: David Neufeld, Kevin Blackburn, Maria Nugent, Isil Cerem Cenker and
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Selma Thomas, Sean Field, Gail Lee Dubrow, Senka Božic-Vrbanic,
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Robert F. Jerrerson, Riki Van Boeschoten, Daniel
Kerr, Siliva Salvatici, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, and Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes. Paula Hamilton is Associate Professor in History at the
University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She is co-director of the
Australian Centre for Public History, and co-editor of Public History Review. Linda
Shopes is a freelance editor and consultant; and formerly a
historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. She is Past
President of the U.S. Oral History Association, and co-editor of the series
Studies in Oral History. Submit orders to: Temple University Press c/o Chicago
Distribution Center, 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628; Call toll-free
1-800-621-2736; Fax 1-800-621-8476; Order online www.temple.edu/tempress; Asia
and Pacific Orders contact: Royden Muranaka, eweb@hawaii.edu; Europe/Middle
East/Africa Orders contact: Nicholas Esson
nickesson@combinedacademic.demon.co.uk" Healy, Chris and Andrea Witcomb (eds).
2006. South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture. Melbourne and
Sydney: Monash University ePress and Sydney University Press. 240 pages. ISBN:
0-9757475-9-2 (web) and 0-9757475-8-4 (pb). "Over the last 50 years, museums have been
regarded by many scholars and cultural critics as archaic institutions far from
the cutting edge of cultural innovation. This judgement is being proved wrong
across the globe, with innovative museums staking out new territory. Nowhere is
this more striking than in the South Pacific where new and redeveloped
institutions have included the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the
National Museum of Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Australian Centre for
the Moving Image, the Museum of Sydney, the Gab Titui Cultural Centre in the
Torres Strait, the Auckland Museum, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the Vanuatu
Cultural Centre. South Pacific Museums make sense of these museums as part of the
complex field of heritage, where national economies meet global tourism, cities
brand themselves, and indigeneity articulates with colonialism. The effect is
one of cultural experimentation. Part 1: New Museums, introduces three
different museums in distinctive national contexts Te Papa, the Centre Culturel
Tjibaou and the National Museum of Australia. Essays in this part grapple with
the role of these museums in the nation at particular historical moments under
specific political pressures. Part 2: New Knowledges, documents
practices and exhibitions at the point of tension between indigenous and
non-indigenous interests in the museum. Part 3: New Experiences,
explores the ways in which museums in the South Pacific are producing that
ineffable cultural phenomenon - experience. Contents: Acknowledgments, by Chris Healy and
Andrea Witcomb; Experiments in culture: An introduction, by Chris Healy and
Andrea Witcomb; Part 1: New Museums: Reforming nationhood: The free
market and biculturalism at Te Papa, by Paul Williams; Museums of New
Caledonia: The old, the new and the balance of the two, by Marianne Tissandier;
Contested sites of identity and the cult of the new: The Centre Culturel
Tjibaou and the constitution of culture in New Caledonia, by Kylie Message;
National Museum of Australia, by Linda Young; Pluralism and exhibition practice
at the National Museum of Australia, by Mathew Trinca and Kirsten Wehner;
Melbourne Museum, by Ian McShane; Civic laboratories Museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the
social, by Tony Bennett; Part 2: New Knowledges: Museums as cultural
guardians, by Deidre Brown; The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, by
Huhana Smith; There's so much
in looking at those barks: Dja Dja Wurrung etchings 2004-05, by Pamie Fung and
Sara Wills; Gab Titui Cultural Centre, by Leilani Bin-Juda; The museum as cultural
agent: The Vanuatu Cultural Centre extension worker program, by Lissant Bolton;
Tuning the museum: The harmonics of official culture, by Ian Wedde; Bunjilaka,
by Moira G. Simpson; Very special treatment, by Chris Healy; Part 3: New
Experiences: Hiroshima mon amour: Representation and violence in new
museums of the Pacific, by Diane Losche; The Auckland War Memorial Museum,
Tamaki Paenga Hira, by Elizabeth Rankin; The National Museum of Australia as
danse macabre: Baroque allegories of the popular, by John Macarthur and Naomi
Stead; The Museum of Sydney, by Kate Gregory; How style came to matter: Do we
need to move beyond the politics of representation? by Andrea Witcomb; The
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, by Natalia Radywyl; Spirit house, by Ross
Gibson. Holzimmer, Kevin C. 2007. General
Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas. 344 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1500-1 (cloth). "Holzimmer first analyzes the experiences of
Krueger's prewar career: testing the triangular infantry division in the late
1930s, serving in the War Plans Division, and participating in peacetime
maneuvers. This training prepared him for the challenges of command in the
Pacific, where he successfully forged and led a large combined-arms effort that
effectively integrated infantry, armor, artillery, naval, and air forces.
Holzimmer then details Krueger's remarkable leadership in the military
campaigns against the Japanese. By placing Krueger's philosophy of command
within the context of evolving military doctrine, Holzimmer shows how he
produced tough victories against a determined enemy in an enormously difficult
war zone. Kevin C. Holzimmer is associate professor of
comparative military studies and vice dean for academic affairs at the U.S. Air
Command and Staff College. Listed as recent addition to the University of the
South Pacific Library in Suva." Murray, John Thomas. 2007. The
Minnows of Triton: Policing, Politics and Corruption in the South Pacific
Islands. Canberra: J.T. Murray. 313 pages. ISBN: 978-0-646476292. First
published in 2006. Revised edition. "This book was shortlisted for the Australian
Capital Territory Writing and Publishing Awards in 2006. It is an 'insightful
and wide-ranging account of the social, historical and political complexities
of sixteen South Pacific island states.' Essential reading for anyone who is
interested, personal or professional, in the region. This book recounts the author's experiences in the ten
years when he was responsible for the Australian Federal Police's South Pacific
Islands desk. The author discusses the issues relating to opportunism by
white-collar fraudsters and widespread domestic corruption which is destroying
the fiscal and political integrity of Pacific Island countries as well as the
natural resources." Sather, Clifford and Timo Kaartinen (eds).
2008 (April). Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society: In
Honor of Jukka Siikala. Studia Fennica Anthropologica No.2. Helsinki:
Finnish Literature Society. 250 pages. ISBN:
978-951-746-985-2 (pb). "Society is never just a localised aggregate of
people but exists by virtue of its members' narrative and conceptual awareness
of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work, this idea evolves into a
broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in
the double sense of 'past' and 'abroad'. This book is a tribute to Jukka
Siikala's contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and
marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring near, distant, inward and
outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim
at developing a new, prodyctive language for addressing culture as a way of
experiencing and engaging the world. Contents: Timo Kaartinen and Clifford Sather,
Introduction; Part 1. Horizons
of Experience: Joel Robbins,
The Future is a Foreign Country: Time, Space and Hierarchy among the Urapmin of
Papua New Guinea; Peter Metcalf, Islands without Horizons: Rivers, Rainforests
and Ancient Mariners; Clifford Sather, Mystery and the Mundane: Shifting
Perspectives in a Saribas Iban Ritual Narrative; Roy Wagner, Lost Horizons at
Karimui; Part 2. Means of
Travel and Models of the World: Antony Hooper, Old Men and the Sea;
Harri Siikala, The House and the Canoe: Mobility and Rootedness in Polynesia;
Frederick H. Damon, On the Ideas of a Boat: From Forest Patches to Cybernetic
Structures in the Outrigger Sailing Craft of the Eastern Kula Ring, Papua New
Guinea; James J. Fox, Sun, Moon and the Tides: Cosmological Foundations for the
Ideas of Order and Perfection among the Rotinese of Eastern Indonesia; Part
3. Mythical and Textual Perspectives on
the Past: Judith Huntsman, For What Purpose? An Unusual Tokelau
Vernacular Text Written by Peato Tutu Perez; Petra Autio, A Bird is a Woman is
a Dancer: Meaning in the Lyrics and Performance of Kiribati Dance; Timo
Kaartinen, The Flower and the Ogre: Narrative Horizons and Symbolic
Differentiation in the Kei Islands of Eastern Indonesia; Bruce Kapferer, Afterword:
Cosmological Journeys; Jukka Siikala's Academic Career; Jukka Siikala's
Publications." Sissons, Jeffrey. 2005. First
Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures. London: Reaktion Books.
176 pages. ISBN: 978-1-86189-241-6 (pb). "First
Peoples argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of
global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were.
Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous peoples are
anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their
own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the
modern are not mutually exclusive: indigenous cultures and nation-states are
aspects of the same contemporary condition, and their apparently opposing
position is an expression of the contradictory nature of modernity in the 21st
century. Indigenous peoples often define themselves in terms of
their struggle against oppressive exterior forces; by contrast, the
metropolitan cultures they struggle against often cling precariously to the
surfaces of their new land. But indigenous identities have also been forged
through alliances between indigenous peoples at international forums and in
other settings. The loose alliances throughout the indigenous world constitute
an alternative political order to the global organization of states. For Inuit, Eskimo and Saami in the northern
hemisphere, for Mayan, Maori and Aboriginal Australians in the southern, and
for more than a hundred distinct peoples in between, culture has become more
than a heritage: it is a project. The numerous cultural renaissances that
occurred thoughout the indigenous world in the second half of the 20th century
were more than passing events. Their momentum has continued into the new
millennium, while the challenges they pose to states and their bureaucracies
have become increasingly urgent. While the economic and political issues
addressed by indigenous groups were and are depressingly similar - racism, loss
of land and resources, inadequate health and education services - the solutions
have been characterized by enormous cultural diversity. Jeffrey Sissons is Professor in Social Anthropology at
the School of Global Studies, Massey University, New Zealand." Sullaway, Neva. 2005. Chasing Dreamtime: A Sea-going
Hitchhiker's Journey through Memory and Myth. Castleton-on-Hudson:
Brookview Press. 336 pages. ISBN: 0-9707649-2-8. "Chasing
Dreamtime is the incredible true-life story of a young traveler's journey
through memory and myth. In 1975, after college and a brief, disastrous
marriage, Neva Sullaway attempts to escape her anguish as well as the
post-Vietnam confusion of her generation by sailing alone around the world, but
her plans are abruptly scuttled. A string of unlikely events occurs and sends
her boat-hopping across the vast South Pacific. While sailing among the exquisitely beautiful Pacific
atolls, Sullaway is arrested for a visa violation, hunted by sharks, stricken
with tropical fever and held at knifepoint. Even after being entangled in a
drug-smuggling scheme and facing death several times, Sullaway continues her
journey, taking a brief respite from sailing the seas to pedal a 'pushbike'
2,000 kilometers along Australia's northeastern coastline. There the odyssey takes
its sharpest turn as she ventures onto a fishing trawler in the remotest
outback regions. While poised at the brink of her physical and
emotional limits in the stark Never-Never, Sullaway catches a glimpse of the
elusive Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime and her darkest demons unfold into
wings of flight. For Sullaway and the reader alike, reality can never be the
same again. Listed as recent addition to the University of the
South Pacific Library in Suva." AUSTRALIA Attwood, Bain and Andrew Markus. 2007. The
1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution. 2nd
edition. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 200 pages. ISBN: 978-0-85575-555-3
(pb). First published in 1997. "On 27 May 1967 a remarkable event occurred. An
overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend
clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. Today it
is commonly regarded as a turning point in the history of relations between
Indigenous and white Australians. This was the historic moment when citizenship
rights were granted - including the vote - and the Commonwealth at long last
assumed responsibility for Aboriginal affairs. But the referendum did none of
these things. The 1967 Referendum explores the legal and political significance
of the referendum and the long struggle by black and white Australians for
constitutional change. It traces the emergence of a series of powerful
narratives about the Australian Constitution and the status of Aborigines,
revealing how and why the referendum campaign acquired so much significance,
and has since become the subject of highly charged myth in contemporary
Australia. Attwood and Markus's text is complemented by personal
recollections of the campaign by a range of Indigenous people, historical
documents and photographs. Bain Attwood is an Associate Professor of History in
the School of Historical Studies at Monash University and Adjunct Professor at
the Australian National University's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research. Andrew
Markus is Professor of Jewish Civilisation and the Academic Director of the
Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation. Both have written
extensively on Aboriginal history and Australian race relations." Bassini, Paddy, Albert Lakefield and Tom
Popp. 2006. Lamalama Country: Our Country, Our Culture-way. Edited by Bruce
Rigsby and Noelene Cole. Photograps by Tom Popp. Brisbane: Akito in association
with Arts Queensland. 70 pages. ISBN: 978-0646456867. "This book provides the reader with a good insight
into Indigenous Australian appreciation and management of country and
resources. The perspective is that of two senior men who were grown up in that
country. They list and picture a variety of plants and animals and tell the
reader a little about their environment and its cultural significance. Their
account is set in context by a useful preface and introduction by the editors.
It talks of groups removed from their traditional lands, cultural loss, and the
enduring desire to return to the old country and old way." Briskman, Linda. 2007. Social Work with Indigenous
Communities. Annandale: Federation Press. 288 pages. ISBN:
9781862876439 (pb). "The health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous
population is marked by recurring and seemingly intractable issues such as poor
access to services, family violence, and high levels of infant mortality. More
than 200 years of historical, cultural and political factors have shaped
Indigenous lives - and the perceptions of social workers. Linda Briskman, social worker, academic and author of
the acclaimed book The Black Grapevine:
Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, throws down the gauntlet to
practitioners and students of social work, challenging them to pursue a better,
more informed way of meeting the unique needs of this community. She covers the issues that Indigenous communities
face, with specific chapters devoted to the areas of children, youth, family
violence, health, and criminal justice. Case studies are supported by
literature and research to provide practitioners and students with a good
understanding of the circumstances they will be presented with when working
with Indigenous communities. Good practice is marked by a recognition of the
strengths of communities and an understanding of how to acknowledge and
facilitate these. This book shows social workers how they can develop their
skills in this area and excel in providing services with the best fit for
Indigenous communities. Contents: Part 1. Background and Context:
Confronting complicity and moving on; Framing the social work response; Past,
plight and resilience; Beyond Australia: international erspectives;
Spirituality, ideology, values and ethics; Part 2. Practising Social Work:
Redeeming social work; The organisational domain; Policies and programs;
Advocacy, activism and social action; Research; Community development; Part
3. Locating Social Work: Child welfare; Youth; Family violence; Health;
Criminal justice; Part 4. Talking Points: Contested ground and debates;
Unfinished social work business; Appendix: IFSW International Policy on
Indigenous Peoples (IFSW 2000); Bibliography; Index." Djimarr, Kevin. 2007. Wurrurrumi Kun-Borrk: Songs from
Western Arnhem Land. Indigenous Music of Australia CD No. 1. Sydney:
Sydney University Press. CD. ISBN: 9781920898618. "Kun-borrk
is a genre of individually owned songs accompanied by didjeridu and clapsticks
performed in the western Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory. The
songs on this CD represent the majority of a repertoire belonging to the song
man Kevin Djimarr, a member of the Kurulk clan and the Kuninjku (Eastern
Kunwinjku) language group. Djimarr has lived much of his life at Mumeka on the
lower Mann River, a tributary of the Liverpool River about 50km south of
Maningrida settlement. He is one of a number of celebrated Kun-borrksingers but in addition he is also renowned as a
traditional healer or 'clever man' known as na-kordang
in Kuninjku. Kun-borrk song series are often named after
vegetable foods or plants. The name of Djimarr's series is Wurrurrumi, which is
the name of a climbing monsoon forest vine Tinospora
smilacina. Some other song series by other singers are named after yams,
other climbing vines with tubers, or spirit beings. Unlike the totemic song genres of many other
ceremonies in Arnhem Land, kun-borrk
songs concentrate more on the episodic minutiae of human emotions, subtle
physical movements of the body, conflicts, suspicions, and the gossip of
interpersonal relationships. An examination of the song texts on this CD
reveals an almost haiku-like poetic beauty. Small isolated incidents without
any given context are presented in a few lines of a song. They might involve a
wave, a gaze, the turning of the head or attention to a sound, an admonition or
a complaint." Genat, Bill (ed.). 2006. Aboriginal
Healthworkers: Primary Health Care at the Margins. Claremont:
University of Western Australia Press. 240 pages. ISBN: 978-1-920694-765 (pb). "Aboriginal healthworkers are employed by primary
health care services to help bridge the gap between the Western medical clinic
and their own kin. Much controversy surrounds what they can and should be
doing. Here, these healthworkers speak frankly about the state of Aboriginal
primary health care in this country. Daily visits to homes of families whose
health, in the broadest sense, continues to be eroded by the historical legacy
of exclusion, cultural oppression and racism highlight the serious lack of
professional recognition and support. These situations are bewildering and heart-rending.
This powerful book portrays the unique healing practice offered by Aboriginal
healthworkers and urges that practical steps be taken to bolster their holistic
approach. Aboriginal Healthworkers is a frank and insightful look at the
state of Aboriginal primary healthcare in Australia: what healthworkers do and
their views on their work as well as how their activities are perceived by the
likes of doctors, nurses and - most importantly of all - their Indigenous
clients. Dr Bill Genat brings a lively and informed perspective
to this timely study of urban healthworkers and allows their voices to be heard
- many for the first time. Aboriginal Healthworkers looks beyond the historical
legacies of cultural exclusion, oppression and racism which pervade Indigenous
healthcare issues towards charting new responses and practices by which
Aboriginal healthworkers can provide healing, holistic services to Indigenous
communities." Hughes,
Helen. 2007. Lands of Shame: Aboriginal ansd Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in
Transition. St Leonards: Centre for Independent Studies. 237 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-864321-35-7. Reviews: The Medical Journal of
Australia, 187(11/12), 2007: 623 /
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_11_031207/watson_fm.html (by N. Watson:
Shamed by the Lack of a Meaningful Dialogue); Australian Policy Online, Posted
4 September 2007: http://www.sisr.net/apo/rowse.pdf (by T. Rowse: Land of
Confusion); The Australian, June 30, 2007:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21971289-5003900,00.html (by
N. Rothwell: An Economist Has a Radical Prescription for Aboriginal Ills);
Australian Book Review, September, 2007: 10-11 (by J. Altman: 'Hughes'
Homelands'); Australian Aboriginal Studies, (2), 2007: 163-167 (by F. Morphy) "Renowned economist Helen Hughes brings her many
years of development experience to bear on an analysis of the reasons for the
appalling standard of living in Australia's remote Aboriginal communities, and
argues passionately for a radical and wide-ranging reform program to improve
Aboriginal lives. Her powerful case is augmented by her anger arising from
personal experience among the people of these remote communities. Hughes presents the case that the well-intentioned but
separatist policies of the last thirty years have failed Australian Aborigines,
as they have other Indigenous communities worldwide. In particular, she
contends that lack of resources that other Australians take for granted has led
to endemic welfare dependency, drug abuse and violence, to the extent that this
is destroying, rather than promoting, traditional Aboriginal culture. She
maintains that indigenous people have the same needs, and respond to the same
economic and social incentives, as all people everywhere, and that separate
programs for Aboriginals are not only 'reverse racism' but entrench
discriminatory practices. The bulk of the book is an unflinching depiction and
analysis of conditions in remote Aboriginal communities, covering: substance
abuse, violence and the law; how common land is (badly) administered, land and
property rights; joblessness and incomes; education; health; and housing.
Hughes also highlights isolated success stories and discusses why these
programs are working where others have failed. She concludes with a blueprint
for reform that, with political will, she asserts would take the 'Aboriginal
problem' out of the 'too-hard basket' and encompass a decent future for all
generations of Aboriginals, current and future. Contents: Introduction; Historical background; Demographic
trends; Security and the law; Land rights and land councils; Property rights
and communal enterprises; Joblessness, welfare dependence and income
distribution; Education; Health and life expectancy; Housing; Local government;
Hyperbole or reality; A progress report card; Communities helping themselves;
Way ahead for the 'homelands'; References; Endnotes; Index." Jones, Ray and Brian J. Shaw. 2007. Geographies
of Australian Heritages: Loving a Sunburnt Country? Series: Heritage,
Culture and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. 248 pages. ISBN:
978-0-7546-4858-1 (hb). "In any settler and/or postcolonial society,
heritage is a complex and contested topic that involves indigenous, imperial
and other migrant components. In Australia, this situation is compounded by the
unique characteristics of the country's natural environment, the considerable
diversity of its migrant intake and the demographic and technological
imbalances between its indigenous and settler populations. This volume brings together internationally recognized
academics and emerging scholars, whose expertise extends through the areas of
tourism, planning, heritage management, environmental studies and state and
local government. Through a representative set of case studies from across the
country's states and capital cities, the contributors demonstrate the range and
diversity of heritage issues currently confronting Australia, and consider
possible ways of resolving these. Contents: Introduction: geographies of Australian
heritages, by Roy Jones and Brian J. Shaw; Heritage protection in Australia:
the legislative and bureaucratic framework, by Graeme Aplin; Australia and
world heritage, by Graeme Aplin; The changing geographies of Australia's
wilderness heritage, by C. Michael Hall; Aborigines, bureaucrats and cyclones:
the ABC of running an innovative heritage tourism operation, by Marion Hercock;
Waltzing the heritage icons: 'swagmen', 'squatters' and 'troopers' at North
West Cape, by Roy Jones, Colin Ingram and Andrew Kingham; Fixed traditions and
locked-up heritages: misrepresenting indigeneity, by Wendy Shaw; A work in
progress: aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia, byn
Nicholas Gill and Alistair Paterson; Lobethal the Valley of Praise: inventing
tradition for the purposes of place making in rural South Australia, by Matthew
W. Rofe and Hilary P.M. Winchester; Perth's Commonwealth Games heritage, whose
value at what price? by Catherine Kennewell and Brian J. Shaw; Port, sport and
heritage: Fremantle's unholy trinity? by Roy Jones; Places worth keeping, by
Rosemary Rosario; Reshaping the 'sunburnt country': heritage and cultural
politics in contemporary Australia, by William S. Logan; Index." Kelly, Suzanne and Angus Wallam. 2004. Corroboree.
Illustrations by Norma MacDonald. Crawley: University of Western Australia
Press. 32 pages. ISBN: 978-1-920694-142 (hb). Children's book. 1999 Marrwarning
Award for Published and Unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders
(Joint Winner). Review: Australian Aboriginal Studies, (2), 2007: 188-189 (by
A.-J. Taylor). "Corroboree
is the childhood story of Aboriginal Elder Angus Wallam - as told to authors
Suzanne Kelly and Angus Wallam. It's springtime - Wirrin's favourite time of
the year. As he sets about enjoying hunting with his father, collecting ochre
with his grandfather, digging for sweet potato with his mother and gathering
wattle seed with his grandmother, people are coming from far and wide for the
big corroboree at which Wirrin will see all his cousins and dance the night
away." Le Griffin, Heather. 2006. Campfires
at the Cross: An Account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission 1839-1851.
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 321 pages. ISBN:1740971124. "When the Bunting Dale Mission at Birregurra in
the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (State of Victoria in Australia
was known as the Port Phillip District of New South Wales prior to separation
on 1 July 1851) was threatened with closure, its Aboriginal inhabitants
displayed admirable self-determination, and local settlers rallied around them
until political circumstances changed. The Wesleyan missionaries had
demonstrated their bravery, compassion, faith and fortitude in attempting to
save the Gulidjan people from virtual extermination, and their humanity
illuminated an otherwise somber era. This account of the Mission, and of the
life and work of its founder, Francis Tuckfield, is an important contribution
to our understanding of colonial history." Maynard, John. 2007. Fight for Liberty and Freedom:
The Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism. Canberra: Aboriginal
Studies Press. 208 pages. ISBN: 978-0-85575-550-8 (pb). "The Australian Aboriginal Progressive
Association (AAPA), begun in 1924, is little heard of today, but today's Aboriginal
political movement is drawn from these roots. In this passionate exploration of
the life of founder, Fred Maynard, John Maynard reveals the commitment and
sacrifices made by these Aboriginal heroes. Decades earlier than is commonly understood, Aboriginal
people organised street rallies and held well-publicised regional and
metropolitan meetings. The AAPA showed incredible aptitude in using newspaper
coverage, letter writing and petitions, and collaborated with the international
black movement through Maynard's connections with Marcus Garvey, first
president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The AAPA's demands resonate today: Aboriginal rights
to land, preventing Aboriginal children being taken from their families, and
defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity. Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1.
Introduction; 2. Fred Maynard's Early Years; 3. Inspiration and Influences; 4.
Political Mobilisation; 5. The Rise and Impact of the 'Freedom Club'; 6. A Year
of Consolidation; 7. 1927: The Struggle for Liberty; 8. The Final Curtain; 9.
Conclusion; Bibliography; Notes; Index. Professor John Maynard is Professor of Aboriginal
Studies, Newcastle University. His previous publications include Aboriginal Stars of the Turf. He was
also a contributor to the Uncommon Ground." McNiven, Ian and Lynette Russell. 2005. Appropriating
Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Culture of Archaeology. Lanham:
Rowman and Littlefield. 328 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7591-0906-3 (cloth) and
978-0-7591-0907-0 (paper). "Archaeology has been complicit in the
appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant
archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took
more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline
archaeology's 'colonial culture' and how it has shaped archaeological practice
over the past century. Using examples from their native Australia - and
comparative material from North America, Africa, and elsewhere - the authors show
how colonized peoples were objectified by research, had their needs
subordinated to those of science, were disassociated from their accomplishments
by theories of diffusion, watched their histories reshaped by western concepts
of social evolution, and had their cultures appropriated toward nationalist
ends. The authors conclude by offering a decolonized archaeological practice
through collaborative partnership with native peoples in understanding their
past. Ian J. McNiven is Senior Lecturer and co-director of
the Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology within the School of
Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University. Lynette Russell holds
the Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University." Memmott, Paul. 2007. Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: The
Aboriginal Architecture of Australia. St Lucia: University of
Queensland Press. 440 pages. ISBN: 978-0702232459 (hc). "When Europeans first reached Australian shores,
a long-held and expedient perception developed that Australian Aboriginal
people did not have houses or settlements, that they occupied temporary camps,
sheltering in makeshift huts or lean-tos of grass and bark. This book redresses that notion, exploring the range
and complexity of Aboriginal-designed structures, spaces and territorial
behaviour, from minimalist shelters to permanent houses and villages. Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley encompasses
Australian Aboriginal architecture from the time of European contact to the
work of the first Aboriginal graduates of university-based courses in
architecture, bringing together in one place a wealth of images and research. Paul Memmott is the director of the Aboriginal
Environments Research Centre in the School of Geography, Planning, and
Architecture at the University of Queensland. He is the former area editor for
Australia in The Encyclopedia of
Vernacular Architecture of the World." Minyimak, David. 2005. Jurtbirrk Love Songs from North
Western Arnhem Land. Winnellie, NT: Skinnyfish
(http://www.skinnyfishmusic.com.au). Distributed for Batchelor Press. CD. "Jurtbirrk, known in English as 'love songs',
refers to a song genre composed in the Iwaidja language and performed mainly on
Croker Island and the Cobourg Peninsula, in the north-western part of Arnhem
Land in Australia's Northern Territory. Jurtbirrk songs are performed by one or
two men, who accompany themselves on clapsticks (arrilil in Iwaidja) while another man plays didjeridu (ardawirr). The songs are created by a known composer and inspired
by actual events, usually concerning love affairs or personal relationships,
yet no mention is made of the names of the people involved, and their gender
may also be left ambiguous. A full understanding of the song texts is heavily
dependent on contextual knowledge. Only the composer, those who witnessed the
events portrayed in the songs, and people who have been told the story, will
know exactly who the songs are referring to. Jurtbirrk is performed informally for entertainment
and can be accompanied by dancing. As far as we know, this is the first time
that Jurtbirrk songs have been recorded and published. The album contains 40 Jurtbirrk recordings and is
accompanied by a 48-page booklet by Linda Barwick and Bruce Birch (edited by
Bruce Birch and Sabine Hoeng), which gives an insight to the historical and
social background of the Jurtbirrk makers (the Iwaidja people of North-western
Arnhem Land) and their songs. It also contains a musical and a linguistic analysis
of the songs, a short biography of the composers and performers, a full
transcription of all 32 Iwaidja song texts, and musical transcriptions of all
the melodies." Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. 2007. Sovereign
Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.
256 pages. ISBN: 9781741147247 (pb). "Indigenous rights in Australia are at a
crossroads. Over the past decade, neo-liberal governments have reasserted their
claim to land in Australia, and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous
owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous
communities are in a parlous state, under threat both physically and
culturally. In Sovereign
Subjects some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical
thinkers examine the implications for Indigenous people of continuing to live
in a state founded on invasion. They show how for Indigenous people,
self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance,
history writing, reconciliation, land ownership and justice are all
inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and
the ongoing loss of sovereignty. Contents: Introduction, by Aileen Moreton-Robinson;
Part I: Law matters: 1. Settled and unsettled spaces: are we free to
roam? by Irene Watson; 2. Misconstruing indigenous sovereignty: maintaining the
fabric of Australian law, by Philip Falk and Gary Martin; 3. Indigenous
sovereignty rights: international law and the protection of traditional
ecological knowledge, by Henrietta Marrie; Part II: Writing matters: 4.
Dancing with shadows: erasing aboriginal self and sovereignty, by Philip
Morrissey; 5. The sovereign Aboriginal woman, by Tracey Bunda; 5. Writing off
indigenous sovereignty: the discourse of security and patriarchal white
sovereignty, by Aileen Moreton-Robinson; Part III: History matters: 7. 'The
invisible fire': indigenous sovereignty, history and responsibility, by Tony
Birch; 8. The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act, by Gary Foley;
9. That sovereign being: history matters, by Wendy Brady; Part IV: Policy
matters; 10. Indigenous sovereignty and the Australian state: relations in
a globalising era, by Maggie Walter; 11. Locating indigenous sovereignty: race
and research in indigenous health policy-making, by Steve Larkin; 12. Welfare
dependancy and mutual obligation: negating indigenous sovereignty, by Darryl
Cronin. Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Geonpul scholar and
Professor of Indigenous Studies at Queensland University of Technology. She is
author of Talkin' Up to the White Woman
and editor of Whitening Race." Nicholson,
John. 2007. Songlines and Stone Axes: Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia.
Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin. 32 pages. ISBN: 9781741750027 (hc). Children's non-fiction. Winner of the Young People's History Prize,
2007 NSW Premier's History Awards. Review: Australian
Aboriginal Studies, (2), 2007: 186-187 (by M. Hill) "A groundbreaking book for children about the
fascinating networks of trade and ceremonial exchange in pre-European
Australia. John Nicholson's lively curiosity, clear text and detailed
illustrations and maps make this complex subject accessible to any age group. Magical pearl-shell pendants, greenstone axe-heads,
belts made of human hair, outriggers for canoes, songs and dances, body paint,
feathers, extra strong glue, cloaks made of 80 possum skins sewn with kangaroo
sinew. These and hundreds of other items were traded around Australia before
white settlement. Some were carried on foot over huge distances, through many
lands and languages. When food was plentiful, several groups might gather for
ceremonies and to swap goods at large markets. All this happened without money
- until the Macassans and then the Europeans arrived. In this groundbreaking book, the first of a series,
award-winning author John Nicholson describes the fascinating networks of trade
and ceremonial exchange in pre-European Australia. John Nicholson is an award-winning author with a
passion for the built and natural environment and its impact on human society
and history. He originally trained as an architect and has built his own
environment-friendly home in the Australian bush. He is renowned for his
attractive and accurate illustration of the world around us. Many of John
Nicholson's books have been shortlisted in the CBC Book of the Year Awards, and
four of them, A Home among the Gum Trees,
The First Fleet, Fishing for Islands and Animal
Architects, have won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books." Rowse, Tim
(ed.). 2005. Contesting Assimilation. Perth: Australian Public Intellectual (API) Network. 352
pages. ISBN: 1920845151 (pb). "Assimilation was one of the most hopeful social
ideals of post-second world war Australia, a rallying cry for those who wanted
a fair go for Indigenous peoples. By the 1970s, assimilation had slipped into
disrepute and was a dirty word among people of progressive opinion. By the
early twenty first century, such odium was countered by a more conservative
nostalgia for a golden Australian past. Throughout the course of its many
usages, assimilation has been a contested term whose importance today, like
reconciliation, is evidenced by the lack of agreement about what it actually
means. In Contesting Assimilation, fifteen historians
illuminate moments in twentieth century Australia when the policy of
assimilation was being planned, implemented, abandoned and debated. The
essays collected here are about non-Indigenous Australians, their social
ideals, their racial theories, their policies and programs. Readers will
encounter influential officials such as A O Neville, S G Middleton, J H Davey
and Cecil Cook, the influential federal minister, Paul Hasluck, and
humanitarian critics and supporters such as Mary Bennett, Gerald Peel and A P
Elkin. Several contributions focus on Indigenous anticipations of and responses
to assimilation including what Fred Maynard learned from African-American
wharfies, what some urban Aboriginal people understood by respectability, and
why residents of Bulgandramine lost the place they called home." Sanders,
W. (2008). Equality and Difference
Arguments in Australian Indigenous Affairs: Examples from Income Support and
Housing. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU.
Working Paper No. 38. Retrieved February 4, 2008, from the World Wide Web:
http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/Publications/WP/CAEPRWP38.pdf. "Abstract: This paper
explores the complex and never-ending dialectic between equality and difference
in Australian Indigenous affairs. It begins with examples from debates over the
inclusion of Aboriginal people in the income security system in the 1960s and
1970s, and then explores Noel Pearson's contributions on this topic in the
early 2000s, with his advocacy of a less 'passive' and responsibility-based
welfare system. It notes ultimately how Pearson's contributions revisit
difference arguments developed in the 1970s, arguments which led to the
Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Scheme as an alternative to
unemployment payments. The paper then moves on to Aboriginal housing policy
debates, first in the 1970s, then the 1990s and early 2000s. It argues that
Aboriginal housing policy is dominated by an equality-based 'needs' agenda, but
that in the 1970s and 1980s an alternative, appropriate housing agenda for
remote areas based on difference arguments did gain some attention. The paper
uses recent work on the measurement of Aboriginal housing need and a
field-based study of Aboriginal camping in a small Northern Territory town to
demonstrate how difference-based arguments have been losing ground to equality
arguments in Aboriginal housing debates in recent years. The paper laments the rather simplistic recent
ascendancy of equality arguments in Aboriginal income support and housing
debates, and suggests that Indigenous affairs in Australia would currently be
improved by somewhat greater consideration of difference arguments. Keywords: Equality, difference, appropriateness, justice,
arguments, dialectic, Indigenous Affairs 1950-present, income support, housing,
town camps. " Stephenson, Peta. 2007. The
Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story. Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press. 256 pages. ISBN: 9780868408361 (pb). "An engaging account of the ways in which over
hundreds of years Indigenous and Southeast Asian people across Australia have
traded, intermarried and built hybrid communities. It is also a disturbing
exposé of the persistent - sometimes paranoid - efforts of successive national
governments to police, marginalise and outlaw these encounters. Contents: Introduction; 1. Trading places;
2. Makassan meetings; 3. Dangerous liaisons; 4. Colonial encounters; 5.
Paranoid nation; 6. Invasion narratives; 7. Where are you from? 8. Detoxifying
Australia; 9. Old roots, new routes; Bibliography; Interviews; Index." Ulm, Sean. 2007. Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of
the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland. Terra Australis No. 24.
Canberra: ANU E Press. 314 pages. ISBN: 1-920942-93-9 and 1-920942-96-3
(online). Retrieved 17 March, 2008, from the World Wide Web:
http://epress.anu.edu.au/terra_australis/ta24/pdf/ta24-whole.pdf. "Coastal archaeology in Australia differs in many
respects from that of other areas, with the potential to examine relatively
fine-scale variation. Nevertheless, there has been a general tendency in
Australian archaeology to play down the variability and to subsume the evidence
into broader homogenising models of Aboriginal cultural change. This case study
clearly and self-consciously addresses the need to focus on local and regional
patterns before moving on to more general levels of explanation. Coastal Themes builds a detailed chronology of Aboriginal
occupation for the southern Curtis Coast in Queensland. Innovative analyses
refine radiocarbon dates and explore discard behaviours and post-depositional
processes affecting the integrity of coastal archaeological sites. The
resulting insights highlight major changes in Aboriginal use of this region
over the last 5,000 years and disjunctions between the course of occupation in
this and adjacent regions. Contents: Preliminary Pages; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of
Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction: Investigating the archaeology of the
southern Curtis Coast; 2. The study region: The southern Curtis Coast; 3.
Methods of investigation; Marine and estuarine reservoir effects in central
Queensland: Determination of DR values; 4. Bivalve conjoin analyses: Assessing
site integrity; 5. Seven Mile Creek Mound; 6. Mort Creek Site Complex; 7.
Pancake Creek Site Complex; 8. Ironbark Site Complex; 9. Eurimbula Creek 1; 10.
Eurimbula Creek 2; 11. Eurimbula Site 1; 12. Tom's Creek Site Complex; 13.
Synthesis of results: Towards an archaeology of the southern Curtis Coast; 14.
Wider implications and conclusions; References; Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates: technical data; Appendix 2. Recorded archaeological sites on
the southern Curtis Coast;
Appendix 3. Site
name synonyms for recorded sites on the southern Curtis Coast; Appendix 4. Excavation data; Appendix 5. Shellfish reference collection." Vallee, Peter. 2006. God, Guns and Government on the
Central Australian Frontier. Canberra: Restoration Books. 409 pages.
ISBN: 978-0977531219 (pb). "On 21 February 1891 in Central Australia the
murder of two Aboriginal men prompted an enquiry and a murder trial of Mounted
Constable William Willshire. They were just two deaths in a litany of killings,
but this time it was more a crime of passion than punishment for cattle
rustling. Peter Vallee has thoroughly researched this complex tale about the
Central Australian Frontier. When Mounted Constable William Willshire had his
troopers shoot two Aboriginal men, Ereminta and Donkey, in cold blood on the
morning of February 21 1891, they left behind several witnesses, and an
eventful story of the first meetings of Aboriginal and white people in Central
Australia. The man who shot Ereminta, Thomas, was an Aranda-Lutheran, one of
the Finke River mission s first converts. What kind of Christianity had the
Hermannsburg missionaries planted on the Finke River? God, Guns and Government traces the history of the mission's early
days, and reveals some surprising connections between the police, including
William Willshire, and the missionaries, and the desperate measures the
missionaries adopted in the struggle for Aranda hearts and minds. The missionaries
thought their real opponents were the pastoralists, who offered young
Aboriginal men and women new opportunities outside traditional life. The
frontier policemen led a strange and violent life, protecting the white people
and serving a law that assumed that all South Australians were equally
citizens. It was of little help when relations between black and white
descended into armed conflict. From a thousand kilometres away government
ministers and police commissioners were supposed to be in control of all this.
A fickle electorate and inept laws were ready to judge their failures. In two
trials the Swan Taplin enquiry into the Finke River mission and Willshire's
trial for murder the deeds of all the players were subject to harsh scrutiny,
with results that the proudly British citizens of Adelaide found hard to
assimilate. The echoes of these events can be heard in the politics of the
Centre and Top End of Australia today. Peter Vallee is a former South Australian who returned
to the study of the State's history after working as a lecturer and science
administrator. He is married with two children and lives in Canberra." MELANESIA Bidou, Patrice, Jacques Galinier and
Bernard Juillerat (eds). 2005. Anthropologie et psychanalyse: Regards
croisés. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales (Éditions EHESS). 228 pages. ISBN: 978-2-7132-2066-1. "C'est à un échange de regards entre
anthropologie et psychanalyse qu´invite cet ouvrage, conçu par des spécialistes
des deux disciplines. Le point de départ de l´anthropologie psychanalytique
est la prise en compte de la réalité fantasmatique dans les constructions
réciproques du sujet et des oeuvres de culture. Le corps physique et psychique
des deux sexes constitue ainsi la voie de passage entre l´universel du désir
humain et la singularité des civilisations. Cette relation de connivence
profonde entre l´individu désirant et l´instauration des règles sociales est le
leitmotiv des auteurs de ce volume. With contributions by Gillian Gillison about the Gimi
('Totem et taboo dans les Hautes Terrres de la Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée: La
révolte des filles') and Bernard Juillerat about the Yafar ('l'auteur
montre comment le fantasme d'appropriation du cargo serait une défense contre l'angoisse
de castration des Yafars face aux Européens blancs, c'est-à-dire face à la
modernité' - Bénédicte Sère in Archives
de Sciences Sociales des Religions, retrieved March 27, 2008, from the
World Wide Web: http://assr.revues.org/document3472.html)." De L'Estoile, Benoît, Federico Neiburg and
Lygia Sigaud (eds). 2005. Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology
and State-Making. Durham: Duke University Press. 344 pages. ISBN:
978-0-8223-3628-0 (cloth) and 978-0-8223-3617-4 (pb). "Empires,
Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the
interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and
nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together
essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about
the 'other' has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government
policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperial
anthropologies, the contributors explore the role of anthropology in the
shifting categorizations of race in southern Africa, the identification of
Indians in Brazil, the implementation of development plans in Africa and Latin
America, the construction of Mexican and Portuguese nationalism, the genesis of
'national character' studies in the United States during World War II, the
modernizing efforts of the French colonial administration in Africa, and
postcolonial architecture. Contents: Acknowledgments; 1. Benoît de L'Estoile,
Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud, Introduction: Anthropology and the
Government of 'Natives': A Comparative Approach; 2. Benoît de L'Estoile,
Rationalizing Colonial Domination? Anthropology and Native Policy in
French-Ruled Africa; 3. Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, 'The Good-Hearted Portuguese
People': Anthropology of Nation, Anthropology of Empire; 4. Florence Weber,
Vichy France and the End of Scientific Folklore (1937-1954); 5. Federico
Neiburg and Marcio Goldman, From Nation to Empire: War and National Character
Studies in the United States; 6. David Mills, Anthropology at the End of
Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Social Sciences Research Council,
1944-1962; 7. Claudio Lomnitz, Bordering on Anthropology: Dialectics of a
National Tradition in Mexico; 8. Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Indigenism in
Brazil: The International Migration of State Policies; 9. João Pacheco de
Oliveira, The Anthropologist as Expert: Brazilian Ethnology between Indianism
and Indigenism; 10. Jorge F. Pantaleón, Anthropology, Development, and
Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America; 11. Alban Bensa, The
Ethnologist and the Architect: A Postcolonial Experiment in the French Pacific;
12. Adam Kuper, 'Today We Have Naming of Parts': The Work of Anthropologists in
Southern Africa; References; Contributors; Index. Benoît de L'Estoile teaches social anthropology at the
École Normale Supérieure and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, both in Paris. Federico Neiburg and Lygia Sigaud teach social
anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro." Foster, Robert J. 2008 (April). Coca-globalization:
Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea. New York, NY and
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 304 pages. ISBN: 9780230603868 (pb) and
9780312238711 (hc). "This book explores globalization through a historical
and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi
became valued as more than mere commodities. Foster discusses the transnational
operations of soft drink companies and, in particular, the marketing of soft
drinks in Papua New Guinea, a country only recently opened up to the flow of
brand name consumer goods. Based on field observations and interviews, as well
as archival and library research, this book is of interest to anyone concerned
about the cultural consequences and political prospects of globalization,
including new forms of consumer citizenship and corporate social
responsibility. Contents: Introduction: Cola Connections and
Worldly Things; Part 1: Soft Drinks and the Economy of Qualities: The
Social Life of Worldly Things: Commodity Consumption and Globalization;
Globalizing Coca-Cola: The Multilocal Multinational Corporation; Qualifying
Products: Trademarks, Brands and Value-Creation; A Network of Perspectives: The
Meanings of Soft Drinks in Papua New Guine;: Part 2: Globalization an
Citizenship and the Politics of Consumption: Corporations, Consumers and
New Strategies of Citizenship; Shareholder Activism: Consumer Citizenship
Inside the Corporation; Pouring Rights: Politics, Products, Agency and Change;
Conclusion: Product Networks and the Politics of Knowledge; References. Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and
Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Rochester. He is
the author of Social Reproduction and
History in Melanesia and Materializing
the Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea." Lothmann,
Timo. 2006. God i tok long Yumi long Tok Pisin: Eine
Betrachtung der Bibelübersetzung in Tok Pisin vor dem Hintergrund der
sprachlichen Identität eines Papua-Neuguinea zwischen Tradition und Moderne.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 437 pages. ISBN: 978-3-631-55453-1 (pb). "Diese
Arbeit präsentiert die detaillierte Analyse des wichtigsten Meilensteins der
Tok Pisin-Literatur, des Buk Baibel. Tok Pisin, eine Pidgin-beziehungsweise
Kreolsprache Papua-Neuguineas, hat durch jene Bibelübersetzung eine
signifikante Statuserhöhung erfahren. Aber wie wird diese Option genutzt? Wird
das Buk Baibel den selbstauferlegten hohen Ansprüchen bezüglich Funktionalität
und Standardisierung der verwendeten Sprachvarietät gerecht? Wie konsequent und
zielgruppenrelevant wurde bei der Übertragung der ideologisch und
kulturspezifisch geprägten Quellen vorgegangen? Ein Einblick in die kirchliche
Praxis und die Netzwerke vor Ort verdeutlicht die Haltung der sozial
stratifizierten Sprechergruppen zu ihrem Tok Pisin. Doch der Fortbestand
ist gefährdet - omnipräsente Anglisierungsprozesse bestimmen die postkoloniale
Identitätssuche. Dabei fungieren Missionare und Bibelübersetzer als Brückenbauer
zwischen diametralen Welten. Das enthaltene Wörterbuch auf Basis des
verwendeten Textkorpus erleichtert den Zugang zum Faszinosum Tok Pisin. Contentst: Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen
(Zyklus und Entstehungstheorien); Entwicklung des Tok Pisin; Christentum in
Papua-Neuguinea; Die Bibelübersetzung in Tok Pisin (Standardisierung,
Korpusanalyse lexischer und grammatikalischer Merkmale, interkulturelle
Problemfelder); Beispiele aus kirchlicher Praxis; Medien und Politik;
Wörterbuch Tok Pisin- Deutsch. Timo Lothmann, geboren 1976, studierte Anglistische
Sprachwissenschaft, Geschichte und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der
Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, wo er zur Zeit am
Institut für Synchrone Anglistik lehrt. Sein gefächertes wissenschaftliches Interesse
gilt unter anderem interdisziplinären Aspekten der Sozio- und Psycholinguistik
sowie der Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis." Macdonald,
Rosita. (2008). Safety, Security, and
Accessible Justice: Participatory Approaches to Law and Justice Reform in Papua
New Guinea. Pacific Islands Policy No.3. Honolulu: East-West Center. 52
pages. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from the World Wide Web:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/pip003.pdf. "Rosita MacDonald examines the challenges facing
the law and justice reform partnership between Australia and its former colony
Papua New Guinea (PNG). Serious safety and security issues confront PNG, with
the incidence of violent crime increasing and the capacity of the law
enforcement, court, and prison systems to deal with offenders deteriorating. MacDonald acknowledges the challenge of implementing
institutional reforms appropriate to the PNG cultural and political context,
and highlights the fact that measurable and sustainable reforms within the law
and justice sector have failed to occur despite a substantial investment of
resources from both governments. Law and justice policy in PNG should shift,
she says, from the official rhetoric supporting traditional and community-led
approaches to a greater investment by the PNG and Australian leadership to
restorative justice approaches, the village court system, and under-utilized
community organizations." Trompf, Garry W. 2006. Religions of Melanesia: A
Bibliographic Survey. Westport: Praeger Publishers. 720 pages. ISBN-13:
978-0-313-28754-1 (hc) "Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's
distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth.
The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted
traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first
bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melansia is an invaluable
reserach aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a
complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise
descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant
sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically
and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief
systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional
coverage includes West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New
Caledonia, and Fiji." Van den
Heuvel, Wilco. 2006. Biak: Description of an Austronesian
Language. Utrecht: LOT. 496 pages. ISBN: 978-90-78328-10-0. Retrieved May 15, 2008, from the
World Wide Web:
http://www.lotpublications.nl/publish/articles/001950/bookpart.pdf. "This work contains the first comprehensive
description of the Biak language, an Austronesian language spoken by
approximately 70,000 speakers on the island Biak and in several settlements
along the northern coast and off-shore islands of the Bird's Head peninsula of
Papua, Eastern Indonesia. The description focuses on the language as spoken in
the village Wardo, but also contains data from other villages in the area. The
study is mainly based on primary data gathered by the author during fieldwork
on Biak. It is not placed within an all-encompassing theoretical framework, although
insights from various linguistic theories are used to support the analysis. The
Biak language is part of the South Halmahera West New Guinea subgroup of the
Austronesian family, of which only a handful have been described in any detail.
Given the close historical relation between this group and the Oceanic
languages, the present book contains valuable data for a closer understanding
of these languages. In the area around the island Biak we find a mixture of
Austronesian and non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages. Due to the traditionally
prominent role of Biak people in trade, the language has been in contact with
many languages in the area. The present work, then, is of interest not only to
scholars of Oceanic languages or Austronesian languages in general, but also to
scholars of Papuan languages, scholars of language contact, and those
interested in the typology of language as such." Verschueren, Jan. 2008. Dema:
Music from the Marind Anim: The Verschueren Collection 1962. Anthology
of Music from West Papua No.2. Leiden: PAN Records (paradox@dataweb.nl).
Distributed for Rein Spoorman (http://www.reinmusic.nl) and Institute for
Multicultural Music Studies in Amsterdam. CD. 71 minutes. "Dema
is a CD with unique historical recordings of the Marind Anim of Southern West
Papua. The once famous and notorious Marind Anim culture with its secret
initiation rituals, colourful Dema spirit processions and ritualized head
hunting had almost disappeared in the 1960's due to colonisation and missionary
activities. In 1962 the catholic priest father Jan Verschueren
made a series of recordings trying to capture as much as possible of the music
accompanying the grand Dema processions, rituals and cults which once formed
the highlights of the traditional Marind Anim culture. Having worked in the
area since 1931, speaking fluently the language, the Marind Anim trusted him
enough to allow him to record the secret initiation and head hunting songs. The 42 tracks on this CD give an overview of these
recordings. Together with the wax cylinder recordings he made in 1933 these are
the only existing recordings of the music. The text of the 20 page booklet
accompanying the CD is based on the notebooks and publications of Jan
Verschueren and is richly illustrated with rare historical pictures from Dutch
archives. Research, trackselection and liner notes: Fred Gales
and Rein Spoorman. Editing and mastering Robert van de Bosch. Photography:
photo archive of the National Museum of Ethnology, the Royal Tropical
Institute, and from publications as indicated. Production and design: Rein
Spoorman (RMP). Produced in cooperation with the Institute for Multicultural
Music Studies (IMS) in Amsterdam." Wrightson, John. 2005. Mission to Melanesia: Out of
Bondage. London: Janus Publishing. 292 pages. ISBN: 978-1-85756-600-0
(pb). "A fascinating and detailed history of the
Melanesia Mission, established by the Anglican Church during the 1840s. The
record of the Mission's progress during the following hundred years, offers a
vivid impression of the vitality, dedication, sensitivity and sheer humanity of
those who contributed to its story. For a long while many of the far-scattered
inhabitants of the south west Pacific had a fearsome reputation for
headhunting, cannibalism and other pagan practices. Their early contact with
the white man led first to brutal conflict and then to unspeakable acts of
savagery on both sides. Deceived and taken, by fair means of foul, to work as
virtual slaves on the colonial estates of Australia and Fiji, the islanders
suffered disease, disorientation and death in their thousands. Those that
survived returned to their homes, bitter and resentful, to create ever greater
problems in their native society." Zocca, Franco. 2007. Melanesia and Its Churches: Past
and Present. Point Series No. 31. Goroka: Melanesian Institute. 218
pages. ISSN: 9980-65-007-9 (pb). "Melanesia
and Its Churches: Past and Present deals with the growth of authentic
Melanesian indigenous churches from embryonic stages to what they are today.
Its central emphasis is on the current situation of the Melanesian Christians
and Churches. Leading up to this, the author traces their roots historically
and culturally. MICRONESIA Abels, Birgit. 2008 (May). Sounds
of Articulating Identity: Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau,
Micronesia. Berlin: Logos Verlag. 315 pages. ISBN 978-3-8325-1866-0. "This book provides an overview of historical and
contemporary music-making practices and their social contexts in the Republic
of Palau, Micronesia. The study identifies and analyzes strands of musical
development over the course of, roughly, the last century. Its secondary focus
is on the conceptualization of the musical transition in Palauan discourse(s)
and its interaction with (g)local identity negotiation. As the
ethnomusicological exploration of the Palauan world proceeds, the book
demonstrates how a study of the music of a small island nation is capable of
transcending the boundaries of ethnomusicology as an academic discipline, and
it adds rich material to the discourse about globalization and to the field of
cultural studies." Hatashin, Omi. 2008 (May). Private
Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-72: The Story of the Japanese Imperial Army's
Longest WWII Survivor in the Field and Later Life. Honolulu: University
of Hawai'i Press. 144 pages. ISBN: 978-1-905246-69-4 (cl). "In 1972, when discovered by local hunters on
Guam, former tailor Yokoi was widely reported as a 'no surrender man' who
survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book is
about the reality of such a man (and the ingenuity he applied to ensure his
survival), which is very different from the stereotype. The first part is the
English translation of his own autobiography, which was narrated to his wife
who wrote everything down. The second part is a biography of Yokoi after his
return to Japan, including his marriage, upper house elections in 1974, his
pottery and his views on modern life. He died in 1997.Although Intelligence
officer Onoda's story of survival on Lubang caught the headlines in the same
year (1974) that Yokoi published his story, it is interesting to note that
Yokoi, a mere Private, did not attract the same amount of interest in Japan,
partly because of stories of 'cowardice' and partly because he was simply a
nobody in the Imperial Japanese Army and therefore an embarrassment. This book,
therefore, sheds a different light on the reality of the war in the Pacific
while addressing some key issues concerning the nature of Japanese culture in
modern times." POLYNESIA Andrade, Carlos. 2008 (July). Ha'ena:
Through the Eyes of the Ancestors. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i
Press. 200 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3119-6 (cl). "Ha'ena is a land steeped in antiquity yet vibrantly
beautiful today as any Hollywood fantasy of a tropical paradise. He 'aina momona, a rich and fertile land
linked to the sea and the rising and setting sun, is a place of gods and goddesses:
Pele and her sister, Hi'iaka, and Laka, patron of hula. It epitomizes the best
that can be found in the district of northwestern Kaua'i, known to aboriginal
Hawaiians as Hale Le'a (House of Pleasure and Delight). This work is an
ambitious attempt to provide a unique perspective in the complex story of the ahupua'a (narrower wedge-shaped land sections that ran from the
mountains to the sea) of Ha'ena. Carlos Andrade begins by
examining the stories that identify the origins and places of the earliest
inhabitants of Ha'ena. The narrative outlines the unique relationships
developed by Hawaiians with the environment and describes the system used to
look after the land and the sea. Andrade goes on to research the changes
wrought by concepts and perceptions introduced by European, American, and Asian
immigrants. He delves into the impact of land privatization as Hawai'i
struggled to preserve its independence. The Mahele and the Kuleana Act,
legislation that laid the foundation for all landholding in Hawai'i, had a
profound influence on Ha'ena. Part of this story includes a description of the
thirty-nine Hawaiians who pooled their resources, bought the entire ahupua'a of
Ha'ena, and held it in common from the late 1800s to 1967 - a little-known
chapter in the fight to perpetuate traditional lifeways. Lastly, Andrade
collects the stories of kupuna who
share their experiences of life in Ha'ena and surrounding areas, capturing a
way of life that is quickly disappearing beneath therising tide of non-Native
people who now inhabit the land. Carlos Andrade is assistent
professor of Hawaiian studies at the University of Hawai'i." Clark, John R.K. 2007. Guardian of the Sea: Jizo in
Hawai'i. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 184 pages. 60
illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3158-5 (pa). "Jizo, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities
in Japan, is known primarily as the guardian of children and travelers. In
coastal areas, fishermen and swimmers also look to him for protection. Soon
after their arrival in the late 1800s, issei
(first-generation Japanese) shoreline fishermen began casting for ulua on Hawai'i's treacherous sea
cliffs, where they risked being swept off the rocky ledges. In response to
numerous drownings, Jizo statues were erected near dangerous fishing and
swimming sites, including popular Bamboo Ridge, near the Blowhole in Hawai'i
Kai; Kawaihâpai Bay in Mokulç'ia; and Kawailoa Beach in Hale'iwa. Guardian of the Sea tells the story of a
compassionate group of men who raised these statues as a service to their
communities. Written by an authority on Hawai'i's beaches and water
safety, Guardian of the Sea shines a
light on a little-known facet of Hawai'i's past. It incorporates valuable
firsthand accounts taken from interviews with nisei (second-generation) fishermen and residents and articles from
Japanese language newspapers dating as far back as the early 1900s. In addition
to background information on Jizo as a guardian deity and historical details on
Jizo statues in Hawai'i, the author discusses shorecasting techniques and
organizations, which once played a key role in the lives of local Japanese.
Although shorecasting today is done more for sport than subsistence, it remains
an important ocean activity in the Islands. In examining Jizo and the lives of issei, Guardian of the Sea makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of recent Hawai'i history. Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue;
1. Casting for Ulua; 2. Stores, Clubs, and Tournaments; 3. Jizo the Protector;
4. Jizo on the North Shore; 5. Warning Signs; 6. Jizo on the South Shore; 7.
Pilgrimages; 8. Drownings in Hawai'i; Epilogue; Timeline of Events; References;
Index. John R. K. Clark, a former lifeguard and retired
deputy fire chief of the Honolulu Fire Department, is the author of six books
on Hawai'i's beaches published by University of Hawai'i Press." Clarke, Alan. 2007. The Great Sacred Forest of Tane /
Te Wao Tapu Nui a Tane: A Natural Pre-history of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Auckland: Reed Publishing. 520 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7900-1153-0 (hb) "A comprehensive and unique natural history, Alan
Clarke leaves no stone unturned in explaining the origin and possible uses of
New Zealand's flora, tracing their evolution back to before early human
habitation. As well as studying a variety of plants and elaborating on their
botanical make-up, he presents a fascinating commentary on the dietary,
economic, medicinal and decorative uses of each. The result of a life's labour
of love, The Great Sacred Forest of Tane
will enthrall and capture the mind of anyone interested in NZ's primordial
past." Freeman, Derek. 2006. The Social Structure of a Samoan
Village Community. Canberra: Target Oceania, Division of Pacific and
Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian
National University (in association with New Zealand Australia Connections Research Centre,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch). xi + 159 pages. ISBN: 1-74076-216-9. "Peter
Hempenstall was invited by the Freeman family and the ANU to prepare for publication
Derek Freeman's 1948 postgraduate thesis for the University of London. It was
the first serious western village study of Samoa and has lain unknown and
largely unremarked despite the controversy over Margaret Mead. Peter
Hempenstall has edited and annotated the thesis and written an extensive
introduction on Freeman's intellectual life. The NZAC Research Centre is
delighted to be associated with this publication by Target Oceania, which is
the forerunner of a major book to be written on Derek Freeman's influence on
anthropology in Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America." Leach, Foss. 2006. Fishing in Pre-European New
Zealand. Dunedin: New Zealand Journal of Archaeology (special
publication) and Archaeofauna (volume 15). 359 pages. ISBN: 0-476-00864-6 (hc).
Abstract in four languages at
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/fishing%20files/fishing.htm. "This authoritative volume draws together a broad
range of information about pre-European Maori fishing in a well illustrated and
very readable form. The author uses identifications and measurements of fish
remains from 126 archaeological sites covering the full time span of
prehistoric New Zealand to describe the range of fish caught by pre-European
Maori, explore variations between regions and through time, and examine the
impact of Maori on the fishery. The archaeological information is placed in a series
of wider contexts - the Pacific background to Maori fishing, the nature of the
New Zealand fishery, climatic fluctuations during the last millennium, and the
nutritional requirements of human diet and the role of marine food in it. The discussion of the technology and material culture
of fishing breaks new ground in its treatment of cordage and knots, netting and
fish hooks, canoe design, fish preservation and cooking methods. Research on
fish behaviour towards hooks provides much needed insight into the reason why
the rotating hook, so common amongst early Maori and other Pacific island
peoples, was so successful. The author shows that pre-European Maori had a
different approach to conservation of the marine environment than is currently
employed in modern fisheries management and that claims of pre-European
over-exploitation of snapper and other species are ill-founded. An especially
important finding is that the average size of fish increased over time
following the strategy of taking large numbers of what would now be considered
under-sized fish. New Zealand had super-abundant fish stocks right up to the
time of first European settlement, and all necessary marine food was obtained
in shallow waters less than 100 m from the shore. Pre-European Maori fishermen
in New Zealand are shown to have been extremely knowledgeable about all aspects
of the New Zealand fishery." Moon, Paul. 2007. The Struggle for Tamaki Makaurau:
The Maori Occupation of Auckland to 1820. Auckland: David Ling
Publishing. 154 pages. ISBN 978-1-877378-14-0 (pb). Maori Auckland is synonymous with Ngati Whatua, or so
it seems. However, there is a much longer and far more contentious history of
the area which challenges this assumption, and raises the possibility of
several other tribes staking a claim for dominion over Auckland. This book offers a concise survey of Auckland's
history in the centuries before European involvement. From the first Polynesian
arrivals, through to the growth of the isthmus, and the devastating invasion
that altered its entire political make-up in the mid-700s, The Struggle for Tamaki Makaurau uncovers a truly fascinating
history of the region, and will cause many Aucklanders to see their city, and
the current Treaty claims, in an entirely new light. Dr Paul Moon is a Senior Lecturer in Maori Studies at
the Auckland University of Technology. His previous books include Hone Heke, Ngapuhi Warrior; The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi; Hobson, Governor of New Zealand 1840-1842;
FitzRoy, Governor in Crisis 1843-1845;
Ngapua, The Political Life of Hone Heke
Ngapua; Tohunga, Hohepa Kereopa
and A Tohunga's Natural World: Plants,
Gardening and Food. Moser, Patrick (ed.). 2008 (May). Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf
Writing. Honolulu: University
Press of Hawai'i. 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3155-4 (paper) "A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the
ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been
transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together
four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of
Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport
currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin
with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers;
the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark
Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William
Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing's
image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts
of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern
representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II
California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore
the sport's most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights
into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how
surfing impacts some of today's most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific
Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and
Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing -
and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries
to survive, adapt, and prosper. Mak, James. 2008
(March). Developing a Dream
Destination: Tourism and Tourism Policy Planning in Hawaii. Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i. 272
pages. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3243-8 (paper). "This book is an interpretive history of tourism
and tourism policy development in Hawai'i from the 1960s to the twenty-first
century. Part 1 looks at the many changes in tourism since statehood (1959) and
tourism's imprint on Hawai'i. Part 2 reviews the development of public policy
toward tourism, beginning with a story of the planning process that started
around 1970 - a full decade before the first comprehensive State Tourism Plan
was crafted and implemented. It also examines state government policies and
actions taken relative to the taxation of tourism, tourism promotion,
convention center development and financing, the environment, Honolulu County's
efforts to improve Waikiki, and how the Neighbor Islands have coped with
explosive tourism growth. Along the way, author James Mak offers
interpretations of what has worked, what has not, and why. He concludes with a
chapter on the lessons learned while developing a dream destination over the
past half century. Contents: Map of the Hawaiian
Islands; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Tourism in Hawaii: An Overview; 3.
Genesis of State Policy on Tourism; 4. State Tax Policy on Tourism; 5. Tourism
Promotion, the Hawaii Convention Center, and the Hawaii Tourism Authority; 6.
Protecting Hawaii's Natural Environment; 7. Improving Waikiki; 8. The Neighbor
Islands; 9. Lessons from Hawaii's Experience; Index . James Mak is professor of economics at the
University of Hawai'i." Richards, Rhys. 2008. Easter Island 1793 to 1861:
Observations by Early Visitors before the Slave Raids. Los Osos, CA:
Easter Island Foundation. 144 pages. ISBN: 978-1-880636-28-2 (pb) "An exhaustive collection of reports, letters,
and accounts - some never before published - from the first ships to visit
Easter Island. A valuable scholarly edition to find a space on every
Rapanuiphile’s bookshelf!" Seuffert, Nan. 2006. Jurisprudence of National
Identity: Kaleidoscopes of Imperialism and Globalisation from Aotearoa New
Zealand. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing. 170 pages. ISBN:
0-7546-4618-1 (hb). "Presenting a unique blend of historical and
contemporary research from a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical
analysis, this book examines the intersection of 'race', gender and national
identity. Focusing on New Zealand, the book highlights the ways in which shifts
in national identity shape and limit legal claims for redress for historical
racial injustices internationally. Key features: 1. Analyzes the identity configurations
produced by New Zealand's process of 'settling' colonial injustices and
highlights the wider relevance for other groups such as Australian Aborigines
and Native Americans; 2. Traces the connections and discontinuities between the
free trade imperialism of the mid-19th Century and the Free Trade Globalization
of the late 20th Century; 3. Rich, rigorous interdisciplinarity and use of a
range of theoretical perspectives provides insights relevant to legal
theorists, feminists and legal scholars internationally. Contents: Acknowledgements; 1. Interventions: law,
postcoloniality, nation, 'race' and gender; 2. Foundations: law's deceptions
and 'good citizens' of free trade imperialism; 3. Jurisdiction: colonial
marriage law, concubinage and polygamy; 4. Race purity in an emerging nation:
orientalism, law, policy, immigration and Maori; 5. Nation as partnership:
treaty settlements in the glare of globalisation; 6. Producing race and gender
through national identity in law; 7. White women leading the nation: shifting law
and policy terrain, cleaning up the mess; 8. Immigration: anxiety, paradox and
belligerence; 9. Convergences and divergences; References; Index. Nan Seuffert is Professor at the School of Law,
University of Waikato, New Zealand." Spitz, Chantal T. 2007. Island
of Shattered Dreams. Translated by Jean Anderson. Honolulu: University
of Hawai'i Press. 172 pages. ISBN: 978-1-86969-299-5 (pa). Distributed for Huia
Press. First published in French in 1991. "Finally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous
Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a
family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French
Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is
highly critical of the French government and, as a result, its publication in
Tahiti was polarizing. For sale only in the U.S, its dependencies, Canada,
and Mexico. Chantal Spitz is the best-known of Tahiti's indigenous
writers and the author of two novels, L'Île
des rêves écrasés (Papeete: Les Éditions de la Plage, 1991; Pirae: Au Vent
des Îles, 2003) and Hombo, transcription
d'une biographie (Papeete: Éditions Te Ite, 2002), along with a collection
of essays, Pensées insolentes et inutiles
(Papeete: Éditions Te Ite, 2006). She is a founding member of the review Litterama'ohi, of which she is currently
editor. Jean Anderson is Programme Director for French at Victoria University
of Wellington. She has co-translated into French works by several New Zealand
writers including Patricia Grace and Janet Frame." Stevenson, Christopher M. and Sonia Haoa
Cardinali. 2008. Prehistoric Rapa Nui: Landscape and Settlement Archaeology at Hanga Ho'onu.
With contributions by Joan Wozniak, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, and Paul Wallin.
Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation. 297 pages. ISBN 978-1-880636-26-8 (pb). "As the authors of this book show, contrary to
past perceptions, the Easter Island landscape was a highly transformed and
managed agricultural terrain that emerged in response to deforestation by the
Polynesians who settled there. This volume adds a new dimension to scholarly
investigations about why the island’s prehistoric society evolved the way it
did." Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (ed.) 2007. Tonga
and the Tongans: Heritage and Identity. Alphington: E. Wood-Ellem for
Tonga Research Association, Melbourne. 264 pages. 50 illustrations. ISBN:
978-0646474663 (pb). Contents: Preface; 1. Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho, God and
Tonga are my Inheritance; 2. David V. Burley, Tonga's Lapita Beginning and its
Role in Polynesian Origins; 3. Guy Powles, Constitutions and People's Values:
Changing the Constitution of Tonga; 4. 'Asinate Samate, Re-imagining the Claim
that God and Tonga are my Inheritance; 5. Filipe Tohi and Hilary Scothorn, Tupu'anga:
Source and structure of Tongan lalava patterns; 6. Adrienne Kaeppler, Heliaki,
Metaphor, and Allusion: The art and aesthetics of Ko e 'Otua mo Tonga ko hoku
Tofi'a; 7. Maureen Powles, Daniel Wheeler: A Quaker in Tonga 1836; 8. 'Aioema 'Atiola,
Tongan Wesleyan Missionaries Abroad 1835-1985; 9. Christine Liava'a, The
Western High Pacific Commission Archives: A source for research; 10. Sioana
Faupula, The Shirley Baker Archives (1836-1903): Papers filmed by the Pacific
Manuscripts Bureau; 11. Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, Conspiracies and Rumours of
Conspiracies in Tonga; 12. Pasemata Vï Taunisila and Gareth Grainger, The Ata
Family; 13. Siupeli Taliai, Ko e Kau Fakaongo; 14. Gareth Grainger, The
Fakaongo Exiles from Tonga to Fiji 1887-90; 15. Phyllis Herda, The Political
Aspects of Marriage in Traditional Tonga; 16. Tangikina Moimoi Steen, Creating
a Culturally Safe Space for Tongans in Adelaide: The Gap Project; 17. Helen
Lee, Generational Change: The children of Tongan migrants and their ties to the
homeland; 18. Bruce Hill, Foreign Correspondent's Report; 19. Kalafi Moala,
Media: A Tool for National Development; Bibliographies; Index. Copies may be obtained from Elizabeth Wood-Ellem:
fihu28[at]optusnet.com.au." |