Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania 9780824860141

Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: The Cook /Forster Collection, for Example
Part I. Early Encounters
Histories of the BeforeL Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time
Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Encountering Agency: Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania
Aphrodite’s Island: Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti
An Encounter with Violence in Paradise: Georg Forster’s Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772 –1775)
Inventing Polynesia
Part II. Memories
Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu
Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus
Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance: Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past
Part III. Global and (Trans)local Processes
Moving onto the Stage: Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance
Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market: The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia
Alienation and Appropriation: Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York
Shanti and Mana: The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji
Justice in Wallis-‘Uvea: Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory
Part IV. Cultural Exchange and Identities
Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past
Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity
A Tale of Three Time Travelers: Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies
Cultural Change in Oceania: Remembering the Historical Questions
Epilogue
Contributors
Index

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