TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2013 - Volume 25, Number 2
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Item type: Item , Review of Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place, and Everyday Life, by Miriam Kahn(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Riley, Kathleen C.Item type: Item , Review of Etto nan Raan Kein: A Marshall Islands History, by Julianne M Walsh with Hilda Heine, Carmen Milne Bigler, and Mark Stege(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Pollock, Nancy J.Item type: Item , Review of Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai‘i [documentary film](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Franklin, CynthiaItem type: Item , Review of Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, by Brian Diettrich, Jane Freeman Moulin, and Michael Webb(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Ammann, RaymondItem type: Item , Review of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power, by Eben Kirksey, and Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua, by Danilyn Rutherford(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Munro, JennyItem type: Item , Papua New Guinea in Review: Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Kantha, SolomonItem type: Item , Papua in Review: Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Widjojo, Muridan S.Item type: Item , New Caledonia in Review: Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Chappell, DavidItem type: Item , Fiji in Review: Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Fraenkel, JonItem type: Item , Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Chappell, David; Fraenkel, Jon; Kantha, Solomon; Widjojo, Muridan S.Item type: Item , The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2012(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Maclellan, NicItem type: Item , Pacific Anglicanism: Online Bibliographical Resources(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Brown, Terry M.Item type: Item , The Corporate Food Regime and Food Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Plahe, Jagjit Kaur; Hawkes, Shona; Ponnamperuma, SunilItem type: Item , An Interview with Oscar Temaru(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Wesley-Smith, Terence; Finin, Gerard; Kabutaulaka, TarcisiusItem type: Item , Mai te hau Roma ra te huru: The Illusion of “Autonomy” and the Ongoing Struggle for Decolonization in French Polynesia(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Gonschor, LorenzFrom a French perspective, French Polynesia is often described as an overseas territory that has been virtually decolonized through the granting of statutes of autonomy. In stark contrast, pro-independence local political parties still consider the country a colony and have successfully lobbied for a process of decolonization under United Nations oversight. This article assesses these competing claims through an analysis of the political evolution of the territory since World WarItem type: Item , After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013) Silverman, Eric K.This article challenges the ethical allegory of the widely hailed film Cannibal Tours, drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, most recently in 2010. First, I sketch the contemporary plight of a middle Sepik, Iatmul-speaking community that yearns for a “road” to modernity and tourism but increasingly sees itself as “going backwards.” Second, I argue that tourism allows middle Sepik inhabitants to express artistically subtle messages about contemporary gender, identity, and sociality in the Melanesian postcolony. Third, I demonstrate what happens when the tourists go home. And almost all of them have done so, especially after the sale of the tourist ship, theItem type: Item , About the Artists: From the 2012 Festival of Pacific Arts(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013)Item type: Item , 25:2 Table of Contents - The Contemporary Pacific(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013)Item type: Item , 25:2 Contributors - The Contemporary Pacific(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013)