Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: In the Beginning xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. An Invitation 1
6. Section One Frames of Reference
7. Making Histories
8. 1. Inside Us The Dead 35
9. 2. Releasing the Voices 43
10. 3. Starting from Trash 62
11. 4. Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Imperialism 78
12. Valuing The Pacific—An Interview With James Clifford 92
13. Section Two The Dynamics of Contact
14. Possessing Others
15. 5. Possessing Tahiti 112
16. 6. Remembering First Contact Realities and Romance 133
17. 7. Constructing “Pacific” Peoples 152
18. A View from Afar (North America) —A Commentary by Richard White 169
19. Section Three Colonial Engagements
20. Colonial Entanglements
21. 8. Hawai‘i in the Early Nineteenth Century 189
22. 9. Deaths on the Mountain 212
23. Tensions of Empire
24. 10. Colonial Conversions 231
25. 11. The French Way in Plantation Systems 247
26. Styles of Dominance
27. 12. The New Zealand Wars and the Myth of Conquest 255
28. 13. Theorizing Mâori Women’S Lives 269
29. 14. Conqueror 287
30. World War II
31. 15. World War II in Kiribati 288
32. 16. Barefoot Benefactors 292
33. A View from Afar (South Asia)— An Interview with Gyan Prakash 296
34. Section Four “Postcolonial” Politics
35. Continuities and Discontinuities
36. 17. Decolonization 314
37. 18. Colonised People 333
38. 19. My Blood 338
39. 20. Custom and the Way of the Land 340
40. 21. The Relationship Between the United States and the Native Hawaiian People 358
41. Identity and Empowerment
42. 22. Moe‘Uhane 361
43. 23. Simply Chamorro 362
44. 24. Mixed Blood 383
45. 25. Ngati Kangaru 385
46. Integrating “The Past” into “The Present”
47. 26. Our Pacific 399
48. 27. Treaty-Related Research and Versions of New Zealand History 401
49. 28. Cook, Lono, Obeyesekere, and Sahlins 420
50. A View from Afar (Middle East)— An Interview with Edward Said 443
51. Epilogue 453
52. Abbreviations and Newspapers 473
53. Bibliography 475
54. List of Contributors 533
55. Index 537