Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Engaging with Interactions: Traditions as Context-Bound Articulations 1
6. Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: The Cook /Forster Collection, for Example 20
7. Part I. Early Encounters
8. Histories of the BeforeL Lelu, Nan Madol, and Deep Time 41
9. Beyond the Beach? Re-articulating the Limen in Oceanic Pasts, Presents, and Futures 56
10. Encountering Agency: Islanders, European Voyagers, and the Production of Race in Oceania 74
11. Aphrodite’s Island: Sexual Mythologies in Early Contact Tahiti 93
12. An Encounter with Violence in Paradise: Georg Forster’s Reflections on War in Aotearoa, Tahiti, and Tonga (1772 –1775) 107
13. Inventing Polynesia 123
14. Part II. Memories
15. Naming and Memory on Tanna, Vanuatu 141
16. Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus 157
17. Social Mimesis, Commemoration, and Ethnic Performance: Fiji Banaban Representations of the Past 174
18. Part III. Global and (Trans)local Processes
19. Moving onto the Stage: Tourism and the Transformation of Tahitian Dance 195
20. Producing Inalienable Objects in a Global Market: The Solien Besena in Contemporary Australia 209
21. Alienation and Appropriation: Fijian Water and the Pacific Romance in Fiji and New York 221
22. Shanti and Mana: The Loss and Recovery of Culture under Postcolonial Conditions in Fiji 235
23. Justice in Wallis-‘Uvea: Customary Rights and Republican Law in a French Overseas Territory 250
24. Part IV. Cultural Exchange and Identities
25. Maori Traditions in Analogy with the Past 263
26. Contemporary Tongan Artists and the Reshaping of Oceanic Identity 277
27. A Tale of Three Time Travelers: Maintaining Relationships, Exploring Visual Technologies 296
28. Cultural Change in Oceania: Remembering the Historical Questions 313
29. Epilogue 323
30. Contributors 351
31. Index 357