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Vol. 45 No. 1 (2022): Pacific Studies Full Issue
Full text linkPacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and publication. The Center cooperates with other scholarly and research institutions in achieving their objectives. It publishes monographs, produces films, underwrites research, and sponsors conferences on the Pacific
Islands.
Articles submitted to the editor must not be submitted elsewhere while under review by Pacific Studies. Please note that text files should be in Microsoft Word format and should be completely double-spaced (including quotations, references, and notes). Please submit manuscripts to [email protected]. Authors may visit our website, http://academics.byuh.edu/the_pacific_institute/home, for Instructions to Authors. Books for review should be sent to the editor
FISHING CAMPS AND TOPIARY TREES: PLACE, AFFECT, AND MORAL AGENCY IN A PAPUA NEW GUINEA MODERNITY
Full text linkDespite being regarded as a founding father in sociology and as no less canonical in anthropology (Merton 1934; Horowitz 1982), the overall theoretical framework of Durkheim’s arguments with respect to place, affect, and agency in The Division of Labor in Society (1933) and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1995) are too often ignored or unwittingly reinvented (Stewart 2007; Berlant 2008). I therefore want to begin this essay with a brief outline of how I understand his main points in order to lay a theoretical groundwork for my analysis of the shifting relationship of place, affect, and agency among the Murik Lakes people who live on the political and economic margins of postcolonial modernity in Papua New Guinea
Vol. 45 No. 1 (2022): Pacific Studies Front Matter
Full text linkFront Matter for the Vol. 45, No 1-Aug 2022 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal
Vol. 45 No. 2 (2022): Pacific Studies Full Issue
Full text linkPacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and publication. The Center cooperates with other scholarly and research institutions in achieving their objectives. It publishes monographs, produces films, underwrites research, and sponsors conferences on the Pacific Islands.
Articles submitted to the editor must not be submitted elsewhere while under review by Pacific Studies. Please note that text files should be in Microsoft Word format and should be completely double-spaced (including quotations, references, and notes). Please submit manuscripts to [email protected]. Authors may visit our website, http://academics.byuh.edu/the_pacific_institute/home, for Instructions to Authors. Books for review should be sent to the editor
LEA TAFE/HEKE, TONGAN LANGUAGE DRIFT/SHIFT: A TĀVĀIST PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE
Full text linkIn this original essay, we tāvāistically critique Tongan language, generally, and Tongan lea tafe/heke language drift/shift, specifically. We examine our subject matter of exploration within and across Tāvāism as a general philosophy of reality, in “time” and “space,” as both ontological and epistemological entities, identities, or tendencies. By actively, yet critically engaging in this exercise, we canvass some key aspects of the problem commonplace in both thinking and feeling. Specifically, this new undertaking will be informed by a key tāvāist tenet: all things in reality, as in nature, mind, and society, stand in fakafetongi ta‘engata eternal relations of exchange, giving rise to fepaki/felekeu conflict and maau/fenāpasi order, on the one hand, and the tāvaist corollary, that everywhere in reality is fakafelavai intersection; there is nothing beyond fakahoko connection and fakamāvae separation, on the other. Therein, maau/fenāpasi order and felekeu/fepaki conflict are the same logical status, maau/fēnapasi order is itself a form of felekeu/fepaki conflict. Two or more tatau equal/similar and kehekehe opposite/dissimilar forces, energies, or tendencies meet at a common point of mata-ava eye-hole defined by a state of noa/0, i.e., zero point. This state of faka‘ofo‘ofa/mālie beauty engages in the fakatatau mediation of fakafelavai intersection (i.e., fakahoko connection and fakamāvae separation) through sustained tatau symmetry and potupotutatau harmony: ethereal yet real faka‘ofo‘ofa/mālie beauty (‘aonga utility) is a necessary condition of tatau symmetry; potupotutatau harmonies are necessary conditions
THE KING’S FINAL JOURNEY: AMERICAN PRESS COVERAGE OF KING KALĀKAUA’S LAST VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES, 1890–1891
Full text linkKing Kalākaua of Hawai‘i undertook several overseas trips during his reign. The last was to California in 1890. It was there that the king died in January 1891. This article explores American press coverage of Kalākaua’s last journey. It examines the enormous amount of attention that California newspapers paid to the king’s travels in the state with much of the reporting being extremely positive. This was similar to coverage of Kalākaua’s previous trips to the United States. Following the monarch’s death, papers across America reflected on his reign. This analysis, although not entirely complimentary, reflects the great success that Kalākaua had in creating a positive impression of both the Hawaiian monarchy and the Hawaiian kingdom during his rule
“CHINESE PACIFICISM?” EXPLORING CHINESE NEWS MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
Full text linkChina has ramped up its engagement with Pacific Island countries and established itself as a major cooperative partner and assistance provider. However, the Pacific Islands remain a blind spot for many Chinese people, whose perceptions of island countries are inevitably shaped by dominant discourses at home. Although island countries are aware of China’s growing presence, they are largely uninformed about their images circulated in China. This article seeks to fill this gap by exploring Chinese news media representations of Pacific Island countries. It argues that Chinese news media paint a broad and superficial portrait of island countries because of the great caution exercised in political news and the intention of promoting China’s image and contributions. The representations have not brought “Chinese Pacificism” into being. Instead, from the perspectives of China, geopolitics, or the Pacific, they pivot around the ideas of development and progress and mainly manifest as the projection of Chinese values and interests onto foreign and insular places
THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN NAFE (KWAMERA): WILLIAM WATT’S TRANSLATIONS AND LOANWORDS
Full text linkWilliam Watt, Presbyterian missionary on Tanna (1869–1910), published a Nafe (Kwamera) language translation of the KJV New Testament in 1890. He had earlier produced Kwamera versions of the Gospels as soon as linguistic skills permitted, but the full New Testament translation was not completed until the late 1880s and printed in Glasgow during a mission leave (1889–1890). Watt worked with island pundits, and he relied on his wife Agnes’s linguistic expertise. Revelation’s allusions and obscurities presented significant difficulties of translation. I offer a close reading of Watt’s translated book of Revelation—Nari Kenamsasani (sasani means “display”)—tracking his grammatical choices, his translation decisions given structural divergences of source and target languages, transliterations and loanwords that he borrowed from Biblical English or nineteenth century Bislama, and finally how Revelation may have resonated with island culture. Tanna’s celebrated John Frum Movement prophecies, like John of Patmos, also foretold a New Heaven and New Earth
Vol. 44 No. 1/2 (2021): Pacific Studies Full Issue
Full text linkPacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and publication. The Center cooperates with other scholarly and research institutions in achieving their objectives. It publishes monographs, produces films, underwrites research, and sponsors conferences on the Pacific
Islands.
Articles submitted to the editor must not be submitted elsewhere while under review by Pacific Studies. Please note that text files should be in Microsoft Word format and should be completely double-spaced (including quotations, references, and notes). Please submit manuscripts to [email protected]. Authors may visit our website, http://academics.byuh.edu/the_pacific_institute/home, for Instructions to Authors. Books for review should be sent to the editor