TCP [The Contemporary Pacific], 2012 - Volume 24, Number 1
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Item type: Item , Review of On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation, by Niko Besnier(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Macpherson, ClunyItem type: Item , Review of The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I, by Ōishi Matashichi(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Barker, Holly M.Item type: Item , Review of The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu, by John Patrick Taylor(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Humphrey, LisaItem type: Item , Review of The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Field, Julie S.Item type: Item , Review of This IS Hawai‘i [exhibition](University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Tamaira, A. MarataItem type: Item , Review of Tahiti: Regards intérieurs, edited by Elise Huffer and Bruno Saura, and Images et pouvoirs dans le Pacifique, edited by Viviane Fayaud and Jean-Marc Regnault, and Tahiti Beloved and Forbidden: Tahiti Herehia, Tahiti Rahuia, by Marie Claude Teissier-Landgraf(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Mawyer, AlexanderItem type: Item , Wallis and Futuna in Review: Issues and Events, 2007 to 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Leleivai, Hapakuke PierreItem type: Item , Rapa Nui in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Young, Forrest WadeItem type: Item , Māori Issues in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Mutu, MargaretItem type: Item , French Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Gonschor, LorenzItem type: Item , Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Gonschor, Lorenz; Leleivai, Hapakuke Pierre; Mutu, Margaret; Young, Forrest WadeItem type: Item , Republic of Palau in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Shuster, Donald R.Item type: Item , Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) McPhetres, Samuel F.Item type: Item , Marshall Islands in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Kupferman, David W.Item type: Item , Guam in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Marsh, Kelly G.; Taitano, Tyrone J.Item type: Item , Federated States of Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Haglelgam, John R.Item type: Item , Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Haglelgam, John R.; Kupferman, David W.; Marsh, Kelly G.; McPhetres, Samuel F.; Shuster, Donald R.; Taitano, Tyrone J.Item type: Item , “We Were Still Papuans”: A 2006 Interview with Epeli Hau‘ofa(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Thomas, NicholasItem type: Item , “Vot Long Stret Man”: Personality, Policy, and the Election of Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu 2008(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Rousseau, BenedictaThis dialogue piece provides an ethnographic account of the 2008 election campaign in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Focusing on the seemingly exceptional campaign and victory of Ralph Regenvanu, it is argued that current analytical perspectives on “Melanesian-style” politics misplace the role of culture in political activity in Vanuatu, treating it as a hindrance to the realization of an implicit ideal of “acultural” parliamentary politics. This serves to both dehistoricize and decontextualize the electoral participation of ni-Vanuatu. It is argued that ethnographic investigation of election campaigning produces a more nuanced picture of both continuous and novel aspects of political engagement. Particular attention is given to the production of policy over time, and the ways in which leadership is manifested and judged in the context of elections. This allows us to understand Ralph’s success as embedded within ongoing civil society politics in Vanuatu and dependent on public discourses regarding the legitimacy of leadership, rather than viewing it as an anomalous victory over “culture.”Item type: Item , Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012) Teaiwa, Katerina MartinaThis article discusses Banaban choreography as an expression of historical and postcolonial identities and, more specifically, relations between Banabans and I-Kiribati in terms of what I understand as the Banaban production of difference through dance. This process is shaped by a strategic approach to representing and reconstructing the past and kinship. I explore some of the tensions around history, kinship, and performance that resulted from the impact of phosphate mining and eventual displacement of Banabans from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (now Kiribati and Tuvalu) to Rabi in Fiji. I also discuss how this research opens up possibilities for a more corporeal approach to Pacific studies.