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OCEANIA IN THE PLAINS: THE POLITICS AND ANALYTICS OF TRANSINDIGENOUS RESURGENCE IN CHUUKESE VOYAGING OF DAKOTA LANDS, WATERS, AND SKIES IN MINÍ SÓTA MAKHÓČHE
Full text linkVol. 42 No. 1/2 (2019): 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
SACRED GEOPOLITICS: LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN GERMAN SAMOA DURING NEW ZEALAND’S INVASION
Full text linkThis article traces the connections in German Samoa between missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), Samoan Latter-Day Saints, and the colonial regimes in Samoa, 1900–1920. Latter-Day Saint missionaries largely omitted remarkable geopolitical events, such as New Zealand’s invasion and a devastating influenza epidemic, from news reports written for audiences in the United States.
The underlying cause for this silence was reterritorializations in Utah and Samoa. By the 1890s, the church in general began adapting to American norms in recognition of the federal government’s sovereignty in Utah. By the turn of the century, Samoa was annexed by Germany and America. The LDS Samoan Mission became adept at navigating the local political geographies, illustrated by greater discursive discipline. Furthermore, the mission decreased its usage of Lamanite to describe Pacific Islanders. This article expands scholarship of Mormon history, Colonial Samoa history, and the geopolitics of religion
Vol. 42 No. 1/2 (2019): Pacific Studies Front Matter
Full text linkFront Matter for the Vol. 42, No 1/2-April/August 2019 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal
TRANSNATIONAL JOURNEYS: SAMOAN MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES RECONSIDERED
Full text linkIn her work on Samoan population movement, Sa‘iliemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor criticizes earlier approaches to migration and remittances as “wrongheaded” because they were based on an “economistic” Euro-American model that did not sufficiently include indigenous perspectives. She then offers an approach that focuses on Samoan conceptions of movement, obligation, and connection. This article addresses her critique and examines the role of indigenous concepts in understanding and explaining trends in Samoan migration and remittances over the past several decades. As important as indigenous perspectives are, a number of the trends that Lilomaiava-Doktor derives from her approach are problematic. Furthermore, a review of the literature from the 1970s to the present suggests that Samoan concepts, especially fa‘a-Sāmoa, or Samoan custom, have been a significant component of research on Samoan migration and remittances, and have often been integrated with external economic and political factors
Vol. 42 No. 3 (2019): Pacific Studies Front Matter
Full text linkFront Matter for the Vol. 42, No 3-Dec 2019 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal
Vol. 42 No. 3 (2019): 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
THE CANOE, THE WIND, AND THE MOUNTAIN: SHUNTING THE RASHOMON EFFECT OF MAUNA KEA
Full text linkAkira Kurosawa, one of Japan\u27s famous directors, made a movie in 1950 about a murder and a rape in a forest that was witnessed by four people, all of whom have contradictory interpretations of what happened. Titled Rashomon, this film became one of the best-known movies by cinephiles around the world (1). Soon, different and conflicting accounts of a particular incident or event became generally known as the Rashomon effect (2). In this paper, we deploy this term to refer to the present controversy surrounding Mauna Kea, a mountain in Hawai‘i, and conflicting interpretations about what it is or should be. Our goal, however, is to find a methodology for resolving conflicts that transcend the particularity of Mauna Kea. In this paper, we offer the double-hulled canoe of Oceania as a metaphorical method for resolving difficult and challenging circumstances
THE CANOE, THE WIND, AND THE MOUNTAIN: SHUNTING THE “RASHOMON EFFECT” OF MAUNA KEA: AN ALOHA AINA RESPONSE
Full text linkManulani Aluli Meyerʻs response to Hereniko and Schorchʻs THE CANOE, THE WIND, AND THE MOUNTAIN: SHUNTING THE RASHOMON EFFECT OF MAUNA KEA
VOICES OF LIBERATION: INDIGENOUS POLITICAL WRITINGS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, AND VANUATU DURING THE DECOLONIZATION ERA
Full text linkHistorians of post-1945 decolonization in Oceania often say that British “administrations were pushing for independence more than the islanders” (Thompson 1994, 153), and a literature scholar criticized indigenous political writings for their “absence of a truly revolutionary heritage [or] utopian schemes” (Subramani 1992: 18–20). Yet, considering the arbitrary colonial bordering in linguistically diverse Melanesia, “national” political consciousness was still under construction. Islanders had governed themselves in local village councils for millennia and had very limited access to colonial education, so grassroots movements for self-empowerment rarely embraced the entire colonial territory. The foreign-derived names of Melanesian countries typified their nation-building challenges: Papua (a Malay word), New Guinea (after West Africa), New Hebrides (after islands north of Scotland), and Solomon Islands (after the Hebrew king); Melanesia was a Greek-derived term for islands of dark-skinned people. “Decolonization” under a centralized administration thus became a paternalistic, even neo-colonial, process of top-down “modernization” by foreign rulers and indigenous elites (Banivanua Mar 2016)