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Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands

List Of Daily Readings (Preliminary)


Previous To Start Of The Institute

  • Hau'ofa, Epeli (1993). Our Sea of Islands. In E. Waddell, V. Naidu & E. Hau’ofa, eds. A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands. Suva: USP. Pp. 2-16.

  • Finney, Ben (1994). The Other One-Third of the Globe. Journal of World History 5 (2):273-297.

  • Clifford, James (2001). Indigenous Articulations. The Contemporary Pacific 13(2):468-490.


Week One, June 30 - July 4: Voyages of (Re)Discovery

Monday, June 30

Hereniko, Vilsoni (1994). Representations of Cultural Identities. In Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century. K. Howe, R. Kiste, and B. Lal, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Pp. 406-434.

Tuesday, July 1

Kiste, Robert (1994). Pre-Colonial Times. In Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century. R. Howe, R. Kiste, & B. Lal, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 3-28.

Wednesday, July 2

Hau’ofa, Epeli (2000). Pasts to Remember. In R. Borofsky, ed. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Pp. 453-471.

Thursday, July 3

Finney, Ben (1994). The Other One-Third of the Globe. Journal of World History 5 (2):273-297.

Friday, July 4 Holiday 


Week Two, July 7 – July 11: Narratives of Nation: The Art and Politics of Pacific Identities

Monday, July 7

Diaz, Vicente (2002). “'Fight Boys, til the Last'...”. In Pacific Diaspora. P. Spickard et al., eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Tuesday, July 8

White, Geoffrey (2001). Natives and Nations: Identity Formation in Postcolonial Melanesia. In Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization. R. Prazniak & A. Dirlik, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 139-166.

Wednesday, July 9

Jolly, Margaret (1997). From Point Venus to Bali Ha‘i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific. In Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. L. Manderson and M. Jolly, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 99-122.

Thursday, July 10

Jolly, Margaret (2001). On the Edge? Deserts, Oceans, Islands. The Contemporary Pacific 13(2): 417-466.

Friday, July 11 Curriculum Discussion


Week Three, July 14 - July 18: Pacific Voices / Pacific Literatures

Monday, July 14

Sharrad, Paul (1990). Imagining the Pacific Meanjin 49(4): 597-606.

Wendt, Albert (1995) Introduction. Nuanua: Pacific writing in English since 1980. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 1-8.

Grace, Patricia (1999) Influences on Writing. In Inside Out. V. Hereniko & R. Wilson, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 65-74.

Tuesday, July 15

Wendt, A. (1993) Towards a New Oceania. In P. Sharrad, ed. Readings in Pacific Literature. Wollongong: New Literatures Research Ctr. Pp. 9-19.

Wednesday, July 16

Tawake, Sandra (2000). Transforming the Insider/Outsider Perspective: Postcolonial Fiction from the Pacific. The Contemporary Pacific 12(1):

Thursday, July 17

Wendt, Albert (1999). Tatauing the Post-Colonial Body. In Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and Identity in the New Pacific. Lanham, MD: Rowman   Pp. 399-412.

Friday, July 18 Curriculum Discussion


Week Four, July 5-9: Imag(in)ing Oceania: Pacific Film and Video

Monday, July 21

Langton, Marcia (1993). The Politics of Aboriginal Representation. Well. I Heard it on the Radio and I Saw it on the Television. North Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 22-43.

Tuesday, July 22

Simei-Barton, Justine (1997). Tala Pasifika – Pacific Voices on Film. Wasafiri 25:73-77.

Ginsburg, F. 1994. "Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media." Cultural Anthropology 9(3) :365-382.

Wednesday, July 23

Barclay, Barry (1999). The Vibrant Shimmer. The Contemporary Pacific 11(2): 390-413.

Thursday, July 24

Smith, Bernard (2000). Constructing “Pacific” peoples. In Borofsky, ed. Pp. 152-168.

Friday, July 25 Curriculum Discussion


Week Five, July 28 – August 1: New Pacific: Traveling Cultures

Monday, July 28

Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz (1989). Tourism and Anthropology in a Post-Modern World. Oceania 60: 37-54.

Tuesday, July 29

Kauanui, J. Kehaulani (1998). Off-Island Hawaiians "Making" Ourselves at "Home": A  [Gendered] Contradiction in Terms? Women's Studies International Forum 21(6):681-693.

Wednesday, July 30

Hau'ofa, Epeli (1993). Our Sea of Islands. In E. Waddell, V. Naidu & E. Hau’ofa, eds. A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands. Suva: USP. Pp. 2-16.

Thursday, July 31

No readings assigned (Work on final projects)

Friday, August 1

Discussion of projects and future plans


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