TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2010 - Volume 22, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization, by Glenn Petersen(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Poyer, LinItem type: Item , Review of Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands, by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Lake, Larry M.Item type: Item , Review of Hā: Breath of Life [performance](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Blair-Stahn, ChaiItem type: Item , Review of Tapa Talk, by Serie Barford, and A Well Written Body, by Karlo Mila(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Sullivan, RobertItem type: Item , Review of Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction, by Susan Y Najita(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Somerville, Alice Te PungaItem type: Item , Review of American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition, by Heather A Diamond(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Bunten, Alexis CelesteItem type: Item , Review of Hailans to Ailans: Contemporary Art of Papua New Guinea [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Castro, JewelItem type: Item , Vanuatu in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Van Trease, HowardItem type: Item , Solomon Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Nanau, Gordon LeuaItem type: Item , Papua New Guinea in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Kantha, SolomonItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Widjojo, Muridan S.Item type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Chappell, DavidItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Fraenkel, JonItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Chappell, David; Fraenkel, Jon; Kantha, Solomon; Nanau, Gordon Leua; Van Trease, Howard; Widjojo, MuridanItem type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2009(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Sione Tapili(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Sang, AntItem type: Item , Pouliuli 8(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Poole, DougItem type: Item , The New Oceania: A Selected Bibliography(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Whimp, GraemeItem type: Item , A Search for the New Oceania(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Whimp, GraemeAlbert Wendt described the occasion of the writing of his groundbreaking and still influential 1976 essay, “Towards a New Oceania,” as the conclusion of “a return to where I was born.” It is clear that the return is from an immersion in some of the moribund elements of the postindependence Pacific, but the form of the return itself is by no means clear from a casual reading. Drawing on a variety of texts written before and after 1976, this brief investigation seeks to discover the location and, more importantly, the nature of that return. Discarding the pos- sibility of the return being to then-Western Sāmoa or, indeed to any geographical location, or even of it being in any sense a temporal or traditional one, I turn to the possibility that the return is a metaphorical one to an Oceanic imagination originally encountered in the storytelling of Wendt’s grandmother and reemerging in the new Pacific writing of the 1970s.Item type: Item , Against Tradition(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) Mallon, SeanAlbert Wendt’s career as a writer and academic is well documented. Less widely known are his contributions to cultural development through his service on advi- sory groups and boards for different institutions. To these roles he brought a strong intellect and influential voice as a cultural activist and administrator. In the early 1990s, Wendt was an adviser for two of New Zealand’s leading cultural institutions. One of his key interventions was to critique the use of the terms “tra- dition” and “traditional” in the representation of Pacific arts and cultural prac- tices. In this article, I reflect on Wendt’s written and vocal protestations against the uncritical use of these terms by Pacific Islanders and others in cultural discourse in New Zealand. In particular, I analyze his influence on the curatorial representa- tion of Pacific peoples at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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