Recently added articles from The Contemporary Pacific:
Hui nalu, beachboys, and the surfing boarder-lands of Hawai'i.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract In this article I argue that the Hawaiian conceptual, cultural, and physical space called po'ina nalu (surf zone) was a borderland (or boarder-land) where colonial hegemony was less effectual and Hawaiian resistance continuous. Through the history of Hawaiian surfing ...
The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Power o f Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym, Vanuatu, by Knut Mikjel Rio. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84545-293-3, xviii + 270 pages, figures, maps, photographs, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. US$80.00. Vanuatu's Ambrym ...
Moving masculinities: memories and bodies across Oceania.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Past studies of Oceanic masculinities have tended to see masculinity in the singular, through the lens of unchanging cultural traditions, wherein types of men were iconic of cultural differences. This special issue considers masculinities in the plural, both within and ...
Re-membering Panala'au: masculinities, nation, and empire in Hawai'i and the Pacific.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Between 1935 and 1942, over one hundred thirty young, mostly Native Hawaiian men (later known as the Hui Panala'au) "colonized" five small islands in the Equatorial Pacific as employees of the US Departments of Commerce and Interior. Students and alumni from the ...
"The Martial Islands": making Marshallese masculinities between American and Japanese militarism.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract For over a century, the Marshall Islands have been entangled between the United States and Japan in their conquest of the Central Pacific; yet because of this, these islands have also been a place where multiple masculinities have converged, competed, and transformed ...