TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2019 - Volume 31, Number 1
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Item type: Item , Index to Volumes 21-30(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Boeger, ZakeaItem type: Item , Review of Island Soldier [documentary](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Kihleng, Emelihter; Mulalap, Clement Yow; Leota-Mua, Jacki; Diaz, Vicente MItem type: Item , Review of Out of State [documentary](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Lipset, DavidItem type: Item , Review of Anote’s Ark [documentary](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Lipset, DavidItem type: Item , Review of Holo Moana: Generations of Voyaging [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Moses, Kelema LeeItem type: Item , Review of Project Banaba [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Arbon, MitianaItem type: Item , Rapa Nui in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Young, Forrest WadeItem type: Item , Pitcairn in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Clegg, PeterItem type: Item , Niue in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Talagi, SaloteItem type: Item , Māori Issues in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Mutu, MargaretItem type: Item , French Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Gonschor, LorenzItem type: Item , Cook Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Newport, ChristinaItem type: Item , Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Clegg, Peter; Gonschor, Lorenz; Mutu, Margaret; Newport, Christina; Talagi, Salote; Young, Forrest WadeItem type: Item , Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Dandan, ZaldyItem type: Item , Marshall Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) LaBriola, Monica CItem type: Item , Guam in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Bevacqua, Michael; Bowman, Isa Ua Ceallaigh; Na'puti, Tiara RItem type: Item , Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Bevacqua, Michael; Bowman, Isa Ua Ceallaigh; Dandan, Zaldy; LaBriola, Monica C; Na'puti, Tiara RItem type: Item , Creating an Archive for Rotuma: A Personal Account(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Howard, AlanThis essay is an account of the author’s experiences in collecting and assembling cultural and historical materials related to the island of Rotuma and to Rotuman communities in diaspora. The resultant archives are to be housed at the University of Hawai‘i’s Pacific Collection in both physical and digital forms. They include field notes dating back to research begun in 1959 that has been ongoing to the present as well as an array of published and unpublished documents collected from libraries, museums, and archives from around the world. A major goal of establishing the archive, particularly in its digital form, is to provide optimal access to persons of Rotuman ancestry as a form of repatriation that will encourage them to explore their cultural and historical heritage in the interest of adding substance to their cultural identity, and to provide enhanced opportunities for Rotuman scholars to assess the materials so that they can generate their own accounts of the Rotuman experience.Item type: Item , Epidemic Suicide in the Context of Modernizing Social Change in Oceania: A Critical Review and Assessment(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Lowe, Edward DThis article examines the Western academic explanations for suicide epidemics among adolescents and young adults documented in many Pacific Island nations beginning in the early 1970s. These explanatory accounts draw heavily from Émile Durkheim’s theory of social change and suicide, developed in the late nineteenth century. Durkheim argued that suicide epidemics are more likely in the context of modernizing social change either because of increased social disequilibrium (anomie) or social disintegration (egoism). These traditional Western explanations are rarely empirically assessed for their appropriateness in Pacific Island contexts. Therefore, this article uses selected empirical evidence is used to assess the major claims found in these explanations, focusing on Sāmoa and the Micronesian region as the best documented examples. Finding that the data do not support well the major Western-derived explanations for these suicide epidemics, alternative explanations are explored. These alternatives suggest that Pacific Island young people’s vulnerability to suicide is partly a result of how globalizing commodity flows, development policies, and the selective appropriation of these by local actors inform local social relations and the tensions in them. This view supports well recent advocacy for a shift in perspectives toward those that draw on indigenous Oceanic understandings of the vā or wā as relational spaces that are central for the quality of health and well-being in Pacific Island communities.Item type: Item , Tannese Chiefs, State Structures, and Global Connections in Vanuatu(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019) Tabani, MarcNearly twenty years after the publication of Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Colonial State, edited by Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey White (1997), this article extends and updates coverage of earlier discussions concerning local and national codifications of authority in the Pacific region and the relation of contemporary “chiefs” and other leaders with state bureaucracies. I address this topic through an analysis of the challenges faced in Vanuatu, since independence, by the attempt to design bureaucratic structures that build on indigenous systems of authority. Looking at the historical and contemporary situation of the Tannese society in the south of the archipelago, I observe the political history and transformation of chiefly status on Tanna, and how local actors in this island have manipulated leadership possibilities (and other aspects of local kastom), partly by drawing on outside resources and connections. This case study also connects with other issues including the ongoing transformation of the roles of local political leaders, global connections linking small Pacific Islands with metropolitan actors, and disputes over cultural property and cultural appropriation.