Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands

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dc.contributor.authorJolly, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2009-12-01T23:37:54Z
dc.date.available2009-12-01T23:37:54Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers the relation of indigenous and foreign in how “the Pacific” and the “Pacific Rim” have been and are imagined. First, I ponder the power of cartography through the lens of two maps derived from the eighteenth century and speculate as to how such maps differed from indigenous genealogies of places and peoples. Second, I explore the origins and the lasting signifi cance of the partitioning of the Pacific into the spatiotemporal regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and consider some indigenous uses of these foreign constructs. Third, I reflect on how academic and policy representations of the Pacific “region” and “rim” have been shaped by geopolitical concerns and developmentalism starting in the 1970s, from the viewpoint of Australia (and in a more fl eeting way, the United States). Fourth, through a brief exegesis of the infl uential writings of Epeli Hau‘ofa, I consider his alternative vision of Oceania as a “sea of islands.” Finally, I confront the specter of new ethnological typifi cations derived from a reading of “roots” and “routes” as dichotomy rather than dialectic, and stress the need for refocusing on the relations and creative exchanges between Islanders living in and between region and rim.
dc.identifier.citationJolly, M. 2007. Imagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands. The Contemporary Pacific 19 (2): 508-45.
dc.identifier.issn1043-898X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/14024
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.publisherCenter for Pacific Islands Studies
dc.subjectOceania
dc.subjectcartography
dc.subjectculture areas
dc.subjectPacific region
dc.subjectPacific Rim
dc.subject.lcshOceania -- Periodicals.
dc.titleImagining Oceania: Indigenous and Foreign Representations of a Sea of Islands
dc.typeArticle
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