Browsing The Contemporary Pacific by Subject "historiography"

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Beyond “the English Method of Tattooing”: Decentering the Practice of History in Oceania

Hanlon, David (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2003)

Questions abound as to the very nature and meaning of history in contemporary Oceania. Much conventional scholarship in the Euro-American world continues to focus on the search for a single, knowable, verifiable past. The ...
"Our Ancestors that We Carry on Our Backs": Restaging Hawai‘i's History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

Looser, Diana (University of Hawai‘i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 2011)

During the past twenty years, Hawaiian dramatist and museum educator Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl has become established as one of the foremost playwrights working in the contemporary Pacific. Since the mid-1980s, a dominant ...
The Stench of the Past: Revisionism in Pacific Islands and Australian History

Neumann, Klaus (University of Hawai'i Press / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1998)

The issue of how the colonial past could be constructed as history is of central importance in Pacific Islands and Australian history. The article approaches this issue by discussing Hermann Hiery’s revisionist history of ...